Steemit is what made it possible for me to complete and self-publish my first novel sized work of fiction. I don't really care that much about money making capacity as I do about the value of combining paying it forward mentality with the posibility to crowdsource work that would otherwise be restrictively expensive.
I'm worried though, really worried, about Steemit's future. Bid bots, despite the many venerable proponents claiming they are helpful, continue to slowly choke the platform and reducing the intrinsic value of the platform. Plans to increase payout for curation, further cutting into the incentive to produce good content are quite alarming and HF20 has shown us that neither Steemit INC nor the op-20 witnesses at time of HF20 truly treat this blockchain worth hundreds of millions as anything more than a school science project. HF21 might kill the platform. Bidbots and other false curation initiatives and initiatives that furter reduce the insentive to produce top content might slowly choke the platform to death.
So I'm definetely sticking with Steemit until it croaks, I hope it never will, but there are many reasons to believe it might.