Not that I'm not sorry about the other ventures--I'm a writer, and I totally hear you--but I'm very glad you see the uses for Steemit. I could write these rants on Reddit, if I wanted, and what would that do for me? Not a thing. There, and everywhere else, I'm paying for the privilege of talking with people and creating content. Here, I'm getting paid for it, by people that are also getting paid to interact with me. Where's the downside?
Not that there aren't changes that could be made. There definitely are. But they also get made, and I'm encouraged by that.