Good Move! Correcting such notions will have such a great effect on steem , its price and the total industrial outlook steem has in the crypto and tech world.
In a way, I even think steem has a lot of advantages over eos. Although, it also seem they both have overlapping merits and demerits. Steem is still easier to work with , with more developed tech tools to work with (steemjs, steemphp , steempy and even steem c++ sdk). With all these tools and robustness, there is still scantiness as regards usage. Although, we have utopian, dtube ,dlive and so on , yet I beleive we are meant to have a lot more.
The reason is because more attention seems to be placed on end-user adoption, and less on tech adoption. In my home country (NIGERIA), there is lot of steem outreach as regards bringing in more users with the caption word of "BLOG AND EARN". As good as this seems, it is like riding on a snail's bark , where you could have boarded bullet trains. I think the community should find ways to promote preaching steem as a tech tool, rather than a platform.
It is also very sad that many of steem ambassadors and whales don't even know the difference between steem and steemit. I have seen that in the way many respond to comments on steemblog.
As beautiful and well intended as your write-up seems, i think it is just solving a very minute part of a very big and popular slander of steem being regarded as a decentralized platform with no base layer technology.
There needs to be a major sponsored campaign to preach steem as a tech. Theere are so many people in Nigeria who needs steem but doesn't know it is a base layer tech. Every campaign in Nigeria about steem majorly places it as a blogging platform.
You stroke some great points
Very few can distinguish between Steem and Steemit
You are a programming Pro...Got me lost with the steem c++ sdk