Steemit was indeed quiet for yesterday because of holiday perhaps but like you said, it's perfect time for writing. I enjoy the off days for this purpose too, even though I can/keep writing at my service place too, lol.
But today I read this post. Reading it and the comment section wasn't an encouraging experience: there is a conflict of interest between content creators and investors, people form the Writers Block have been leaving and sign ins have decreased to half from the rates of March. Big money will come in crypto for sure, but reading these things always brings a certain doubt, although I'm not going to let it affect (at least try) my writing. But then again, there's no other place like Steem(it) - which has been up and running for 2 years now - even in its infancy, only some other things that exist as concepts only (ONO).
So, we surely are way ahead of everything else even if something new appears. Other platforms aren't mysteriously going to skip all the problems with an equal adoption rate that Steemit has. The concepts only will in many cases be overvalued because we know the "supposedly-soon-to-come-ideal" -model, when in reality they hardly ever work as planned. But up and running, actually real working products aren't as attractive because of the unvoidable problems, not being the "ideal" we so badly wished for. I think it's impossible to create the "perfect model" from the start. Instead we need to do a lot of iteration and adjustments on the way to make things as good as possible.
Even though some things are somewhat shit here, some people are actually trying to make it better. One example being @transparencybot which - on top of providing information on the use of upvotebots under the upvoted post increasing transparency on the use of bots - it also upvotes some posts that use the nobidbot tag which has emerged as an answer for the bot upvoted post army! I discovered this when one of my posts was upvoted by it.
Personally I don't really know any other place to earn something with my writing, at least not as conveniently, so I'm not leaving anywhere from here for a good while. But still, it's little concerning if some writers decide to leave because originality is the most valuable thing Steemit has, in my opinion, even though they are grossly overlooked and, in many cases, buried under a pile of shit.
PS. I really don't understand what Nordea is doing with deciding for their customers what they are supposed to do with their money. Glad I don't have an account on them.
The nordea thing is for their employees.
On the bidbots, at least for now they aren't going to be going anywhere unfortunately which means, do the best you can. I don't use bidbots but I am both content creator and investor, what do I do? I think that the option is to find some kind of middle ground where good content is able to votes bought on it if the author wants to but at the moment, it is profit over all else. If from the start they had manually curated bids, this would be much less of a problem now. But again, they aren't going anywhere until there is another HF that takes the incentive away.
Oh, right, still it's questionable.
Thank you for the support of @transparencybot, it is a real pleasure to be able to upvote quality articles and authors that believe in the long term health of our platform.