While I really do want to see SMTs soon, I agree that the existence alone will not increase demand.
Steemians are mostly waiting for external hype while neglecting the usability of the platform.
Steem is too noisy to act as a backend and too complicated as a frontend.
To illustrate, I like to point to the fact that most social interactions are happening off Steem - on Discord.
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your illustration of discord is on the ball.....