Thanks for the civil reply. Your article makes perfect sense to me now, and I see why the Steem designers did things the way they did. Steem is still new, and the people in it are on the bleeding edge of social media. Like most things designed by highly-technical people, the user-friendliness of Steemit still has a way to go until "even your grandma can use it."
Posts like the article you wrote are a necessary intermediary step from Steem being a geek toy to making it accessible to the masses. Cheers!