Good insight as always.
I would agree that a lot of people come onto Steemit thinking it is easy money. Then, they leave after whatever scheme they hatched didn't work.
Then, there are a lot of low effort crap that tries to get that 10% ROI via bid bots. They can't last long. Meanwhile, it's annoying to see them getting more payout than you would. However, they can only bid so much so often unless they want to bring their own money into play.
I'm playing the Steemit game as free to play as I can and I think I am doing okay for now.
I don't know if you read @malicered's post about people not reading contents, but he also inspired me to write a post about how Steemit could devolve into a mining platform where "contents" are just mining nodes ready to be voted and people really don't care about what you write.
Might as well start staking pools. lol