I agree completely with everything you wrote here @m-ssed-t.
There is a lot of work to be done by the developers. This is not something that it fully ready for the masses. A lot needs to be streamlined to make it attractive to them.
The possibility does exist...which is exciting.
Plus, the SMT protocol, when released, will be huge because then millions through other sources.
It IS exciting. I just hope they can pull it off.
Blockchain tech can take the Internet in the direction it was originally intended to take, with decentralised systems, not big players controlling it.
And the whole premise of STEEM, allowing the community to profit from the community is the most exciting thing I've come across on the Internet since I first came to it in 1996/7 (screeching modems & all!)