I still dont trust the people making the decision for Steem. While id like to believe, all the positives will go right back down the drain if they screw up this next hardfork for SMT like they did the last one. The few people that are still here will dwindle even more.
As far crypto in general, its a total crap shoot at the moment. Until it becomes a mainstream investment there is no stability in any coin including Bitcoin. Just 6 weeks ago Bitcoin was under 7K. Now its 9.2K.
Yeah, I think we have actually been going backwards as well - last fork/changes didn’t go so well and SMTs may not be the game changer people were hoping for. Steem is also on fewer exchanges which is not good. However, I do believe that we will go up with the pending BTC rise (I think it’s coming soon) and if we got listed on Coinbase or something, Steem could double overnight... I am hodling out hope!