Very very great post on the possible future of steem and the way it could be part of the revolution taking place through cryptocurrencies over the next years. I can just agree with you on basically everything you mention above but especially on the point of the contribution to this ecosystem.
Luckily we got some awesome developers standing behind projects & frontends to the Blockchain just like Utopian.io, D.Tube or busy.org and those are just the biggest ones to be named.
But like you mention, people don´t need to be developers to contribute to the growth of steem. You can as well be a great content creator or a reader and commenter. There´s a space for everyone on here as well as the possibility to earn some money!
Yes and I believe the money will grow astronomically, at least in terms of dollars. We have not even scratched the surface of where this can go. I believe that we are going to be looking at things a lot differently come April. There will be a lot of changes during the first quarter which should make us all happy.
It is key to not only get people here but to help them become involved and succeed. That is crucial. People talk about retention rates for a reason....it is worthless for someone to come here, get frustrated and leave. It will happen but we should try to keep it down as much as we can.