"Steem revived blogging" was quite a popular saying at one stage but unfortunately I haven't heard it a lot lately.
A couple of thoughts on this. The "initial shininess" of Steemit has worn off a little. A while back, I was very excited about the potential of Steemit as a place that would take up the slack and fill a 12-year gap between the early days of blogging (Xanga, LiveJournal, Diary-X and others) and now. That gap left literally millions of dedicated users high and dry because MySpace and Facebook changed the nature of "web social" from real content to "fluff."
Blogging basically split itself and either you were social on Facebook ("personal") or you were expert on your niche blog ("professional").
In the earlier days of Steemit, there was a sense of hope that "social blogging" could indeed make a comeback.
Unfortunately, the dominant philosophy that took root on Steemit seems to not be about creating a content platform (for blogs, videos, art, music, gaming, whatever) but about how to create an *automated money grab." And about how for a bunch of developers to create apps and SMTs (or whatever) for the Steem blockchain. In that process, everyone seems to have blissfully forgotten that no matter how brilliant a venue you may create, unless you have a bunch of happy en users, that doesn't amount to anything more than having a great app playing to nobody at all.