I don't like the idea of rewarding bloggers with stakeholder's money, there are two kinds of bloggers on steemit
It's the chief differentiating factor. The primary selling point. If you're not getting rewarded then there is no point being here. Other than the fact you can be paid for posting short term trendy content and ads, steemit offers nothing compelling at all. Plus there are a lot of good reasons to not bother being here and the financial incentives help balance that out.
Bloggers aren't being rewarded with stakeholders money. Stakeholders have something worth >$0 because some of us are trying like hell to bring people to the platform and build out infrastructure and ecosystem, and the financial incentives ARE A HUGE PART OF THAT DECISION.