100% agree. I just paid 5 Steem to make this account. I also have about 140 SP and 52 liquid Steem.
I plan on powering up everything (the liquid Steem will be used to promote my posts with bots) but everything else will be powered up 100% on my account.
I wish there was a simpler way for new users to get noticed. I only have 9 followers so far. I wrote a good intro post that I promoted with bid-bots, another about Horizen, and another about my new pupper.
It's just hard for people to attract followers and to receive decent sized upvotes. Lets face it, no one wants to post to so few people and earn pennies for content they spent hours working on. We need an easier way of promoting new users that create good/decent content to get them to stick around.