Rapid is obviously a relative word.
Rapid as compared to other blockchains? Yes some. Compared to BCash...I would say yes, the development on STEEM is rapid versus that. Compared to ETH....not so much.
The applications exploded this year, with more than 50 appearing in the last two months. Naturally,not all will hit but that is a lot of apps churned out (although not all big ones either).
Another area I see a difference is the frequency of updates on some of the newer ones. Actifit already released 3 updats...dlike 2 or 3...and they are in their first month or two.
Since I joined in August, the pace is a lot quicker in my view.
So , Iooked into this a bit more , it looks the STEEM developer activity score is much better ( rank 12) than the overall STEEM rank (45)
https://www.coingecko.com/en?sort_by=developer_score
Tks for your response..