Things are this way because stinc, et al, wants them this way.
The things we call faults, they call features.
Steem used to have two payouts, 24hrs and 30 days.
That was changed, likely to enhance abuse.
Stinc, et al, doesnt want more users, too many people are getting paid now.
The more that goes to their gang members now, the longer their control of the platform persists.
Steemsports used to let us bet on sports by voting on who we thought would win, but stinc, et al, decided that too much steem was escaping their grasp and forced them to stop.
If you look at this as a long game, stinc, et al's, enabling of abuse makes sense.
The more steem that escapes their greedy grubbies the less control they have.
Who has millions laying around to vest in steem?
Not poor people.
Its naive to think that rich people will act in the interests of anybody but themselves, its how they stay rich.
They dont stay rich by giving money to poor people, not when they can get even richer selling to fools that dont understand the math.
I dont look for things to improve before getting much worse, its counter to the interests of those already here.
That kinda explains why communities, and now smt's, are 'just around the corner'.
The more pie in the sky they sell us, the more time to find bigger fools.
This eventually all shakes out, the abusers move on to abuse something else, and those of us left can build what steem couldve been all along.
The really long plan,...
Its a dark perspective, but its pretty easy to see why some users (sometimes me included) feeling like you do.
Steem Inc. As a Company is not a Very good one. Strange decisions, bad PR, the CEO involved in petty discussion, some weird (not to say shady) token/delegation distribution, not caring about what kind of content is published.... Lots of problems.
I Will stick around to see what Will happen, but If for some reason i start to work as a professional content creator, steemit definetly wont be on my list of platforms to publish.