Who knows what will come about in the next year or so.
No one knows, but the way it is at the moment, I would say it could very easily become a content free, bot mining crypto, platform.
( I also said bitcoin was the next big thing- when it launched - but a shit time in my life took over, and i never got around to doing anything about it ! doh!)
Hopefully I don't perceive it correctly with steemit. I hope I am so wrong..