As the potential of Steem as a blockchain is basically endless I see room for true content makers, which I consider myself to be part of, and the opportunists. But we do need more delegations and might have to be very very connect with one another to sort of 'make' it on the platform. 'Making' it is a relative thing though. The 'opportunists' will have a different money goal to start with, the small content makers might have a lower expectation of what they will gain on the platform anyway. And they might be happier with their rewards than those with higher expectations and higher rewards.
At least, that's what I experience here. I hope it will stay that way :-) I might change my perspective on this on a week by week basis - I too see truly great content being overlooked and truly useless content getting the highest rewards.