Definitely a lot in Steemit that is worthy of praise. However I believe there is an important risk involved in it becoming widely adopted by users. Currently we have our whales going around and they are called whales, while they hold not particularly high amounts of investments in the platform. Relatively high, but not absolutely high.
Imagine if this was a network the size of Facebook and at the same time had its existing interface. The bots we'd be looking at in that scenario would be Corporate and Government owned, with a chance to massively directly influence oppinion, like on no other platform.
Let's just hope Steemit never get's that big or changes its platform by then. Which I'm pretty sure it will :)