"It just seems like everyone is going in different directions at full speed and it is tearing apart what steemit once was, a community. Now it is all factions, groups and clubs, not unity."
I agree with you. All of these "tribes" makes things worse in the sense of tags. Tags aren't useful anymore, because everyone will use the tags I've used in this post. But, they will use it for whatever content they produce because they want those extra rewards. However, that's basically the only downside I see so far with them.