Wow @trumpman! This is a great piece of article and will be resteemed for future reference.
I like how you explain everything in your post making it clear for newbies but not only them.
I too believe in steem, I believe in the community and I was actually considering a long time to join before actually adoing so (Oct 29 is the date :P)
I think that steem is full of potential, mainly due to its community. Influential people have started joining and actually creating a crypto-following in steemit too!
I accidentally bumped into @joeparys, who is also a udemy instructor and offers a steemit class (among others). He is shouting out about steemit and his youtube channel has more than 24K subscribers. (There are more people of course, but this is a recent discovery of mine :)))
One of the things I have started to like a lot is that the steemians blog about everything, science, education, crypto, travel, life, photography .. And even if a user cannot find a favorite topic, they can of course create one of their own.
This is getting a very long post so I need to conclude thanking you again for sharing it.
I was lucky to see it because I noticed I had not followed you yet :P
p.s. You forgot to input the source in your quote regarding network capacity between ETH and Steem.
Thanks for the great comment and the support :D