I know exactly how you feel and how frustrating it can be. Interacting, supporting I ve done it all but seems I can't catch a break, the big bucks aren't really coming and even when they do they go MIA for a few weeks. To make up for it, I do sometimes indulge with bots but then I cant really check my organic growth, It can be so stressful! Maybe it's that I dont do enough networking or my content isn't good enough or maybe it's not for me too.
I don't know yet as of now, what I know is that I've gained so much knowledge that range from everything to myself while making some new friends. Aso I probably would have never been able to enter the cryptoverse without steemit. So I still kind of owe it that too. What I've decided is that I'll keep going at it for a few more months, to only post what/when when I feel that its organically ready, heck sometimes I even "shitpost".(from which I sometimes earn more lol)
Yes its stressful AF but I've decided to kind of treat it like an adventure and stick around for a bit and I think you should too :)
Plus I think steem might be getting big in the future and if so, then those 0.0$'s of ours will have been worth it :)