As someone who has recently joined Steemit, I have found the number of posts quite overwhelming really. Also the quality of so many of the posts is not living up to what I expected from Steemit when I first read and heard about it, so I agree that communities would be a great way forwards.
Having like minded souls connected in their passions through smaller communities would make connecting easier and increase the personal chat through the heart and cut out the comments made to get votes.
When you connect with someone with something in common, then the chat just flows and from this it's easy to brainstorm and come up with new ideas.
I love the concept of Steemit, to create positive change in the world, and I do feel that it is a long term project because unfortunately too many people are controlled by money and greed.
I believe that truth, integrity and discernment are the foundations for a good humanity and not having these as our foundation of humanity has led to the world being in the state that it is in.
There are many ways of creating change, but if morals, truth, integrity and discernment aren't leading the way then nothing truly positive and honest will follow.