Steem-Engine is really cool, I love it and I see some potential, but I definitely agree with you. However, it's like I've been saying for a long time:
- We need to figure out who our audience are.
How are we promoting Steem and what type of people do we really want here? Are we going for mass adoption, (which would be literally everyone on FB, Twitter, Instagram) in other words, the "average" users or are people still trying to bring people on board with all the mumbo jumbo about Steem being a "decentralized platform" etc?
I mean, nobody cares about that except for the "underground anarchist-anti-government" type of people, but most people on Steem, seems to believe it's the best way to go...
Decentralised or not, the "average" people doesn't care. They want simplicity, and to promote Steem like a personal cash-cow that so many has done during these years have only hurt Steem.
That being said, I read the comment from @yabapmatt. A great comment, and it feels like we could potentially be heading towards that direction, but I guess it will take another 3 years or so before we're even close to something like that.
At the time I'm writing this, Steem is worth $0,23. 100% of all the Steemians hate the price because they have either lost some of their investments or they aren't being rewarded as much as when the price is high...
The funny part is, that these "average people" I've been talking about... They have never earned $0,23 for a post on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, so anyone interested in earning a little extra on the side, for doing the same thing as they've been doing for years on other social medias... Well, they wouldn't care much about the price being $0,23, because they would ultimately see it as a huge chance to earn something extra.
My two cents:
People fucked up a long time ago and Steem had to pay the price for peoples ignorance, their selfishness and greed. So, that behaviour was and has been slowly killing Steem ever since people started to behave like nothing except themselves mattered.
But hey, instead of doing something real to turn this ship around, we can just continue to flag our newcomers and people we don't like on a personal level for "raping the reward pool" and whatever, meanwhile we continue to shove those 100% upvotes up our own asses. Eventually, we might actually be able to buy ourselves lunch at McDonald's for about 100K steem.
- That would be fun.