I like the enthusiasm and positivity and although I would love to agree, I feel like STEEM is STEEM and not really going to change much in the future. Dan Larimer moved on to EOS and all real innovation to evolve STEEM into something else went with him in my opinion.
If Steem(it) is a beta then it's probably a beta for it's counterpart on EOS, I'm afraid. I wrote a post about Dan Larimer's remarks about starting an EOS competitor not too long ago.
Personally I love Steemit and STEEM but as long as it's possible to game the system and 'rape the rewardpool' then it's never going to be a serious currency even if it has free transaction times and other benefits.
I am starting to feel like we need to start a publicity campaign to get @ned's attention and force him to reply to the issues that plague steem(it).
The only way I see Dan beating steemit on EOS is if he makes a hard fork of steemit that is hosted on EOS.
It would be incredibly stupid, I think.
Do you say this because of the user adoption headstart Steemit has?
I think a better platform could outcompete steemit, but I still think it's too early to tell if steemit will be successful or not. There has been a lot of innovation on the steem blockchain. There are also a lot of bots here.
If you invented steemit, and then three years later you tried to kill it...what trust would your new platform's users have that you won't do the same thing to the new platform?
I was thinking the same thing yesterday on that last point. I would absolutely lose all faith in that team. They'd be bitconnect to me!