I would agree with this. While Trending is better, it is really not what makes steemit exceptional imho. most things that trend do so not for the number of votes given but on steem dollar amounts. These vote amounts are based more on a select number of people and not the majority. Trending is also based on curation trail and bot votes, which imho, are paid for one way or another.
For instance in this post, value is garnered for the most part on ten votes. Yet I have seen other posts get twice as many votes and little value, because they are not recognized by the people who matter. The majority of trending discusses steem, and while that is slowly changing, the ratio of material is skewed towards steem related content.
I'd like to see that change.