New accounts are always hyping in almost all projects. No news in that. The more interesting part would be seeing how these new accounts are going to be utilised in combination with one another.
Having in mind the architecture of Steemit along with the reward system, these new signups can be used exploitatively — significantly hindering new active user growth. Nonetheles, I agree with you that it is way too early to tell.
Speculation at this point is downright snake oil