Why do you think the number of active users will increase with a faster rate?
I think Steemit still suffers with an issue to register new accounts. So it looks like it can't go really faster?
You are right about Steemit being to difficult for new users. But I'm not sure if 2 months of free upvotes would help?
After 2 months lots of people still don't know a lot about how Steemit works. And for me, I'm here 4 months now, my posts receive an average upvote value of $0.15. Basically nothing. Of course this can be the result of my crappy quality. But in the end we can't earn a lot for every Steemonian.
Maybe a different reward system would help? Where users like @haejin would receive less value for the same number of upvotes?
Personally I prefer to kill the possibly of paid upvote bots. And as well to only self upvote and only upvote friends 10+ times a week. I don't know a solid solution. But would love to see those things solved.
Steemit will grow at faster rate because now there is more users that can spread the word about it. More users mean more promoters. It is like chain...