When you watch a video about steemit, they show how much people make on trending page. Again when you go to the trending page, you see people are making huge amount of money from their post.
It just takes time to realize that they (most of them) paid huge amount of money to bots in order to go to the trending page. So, it's not that amount of money they make that you used to think. Looks like you can literally make any post on trending page (regardless of the quality of the content) if you can pay enough to bots. It's kinda disappointing!
Since Steemit is still in beta version and it is a new concept, it will fix its shortcoming. We will see a decentralized world.
What you bring up is I think what bothers a lot of people on Steemit. It's almost more a game of knowing how to play the system than it is about creating quality content
Hope Steemit will fix these issues in the next update!
Yes, you're right. That's what, we see every single day.