I believe we mostly agree as well. You're certainly 100% correct about getting indexed. We are seeing a small touch of that mindset currently with Tribe owners giving extra incentives to those posting from their Steem interfaces.
By design the Steem blockchain is token focused and is the main attraction to those using this blockchain as a social media platform. They come for the token(s) and the good ones stay for the community.
The main issue with trying to get people to be content focused over collecting crypto focused is that Steem(it) itself hasn't managed to figure out how to do that. So with the new interfaces/tribe sites mainly getting their user base from the ones already on the blockchain changing that mindset would be hard for them to do at current time.
Sorry if I typed a bit long
Not too long at all, I appreciate your well thought out response.