I totally agree with you on inflation - this are not the main points here when it comes to steemit. I think the most difficult thing will be editorial work as you could clearly see last days when masses came all topics were full spammed of unrelated content. This tag-spammed posts even dominated the top categories and nobody of valueable voters seems to do some editorial work.
As you are (what I would call) a whale, may I ask you for some feedback on the actual upcoming spam topic and editorial work? I wrote an article today and need some statement from "valueable" voters (aka whales) on that topic.