hey buddy just discovered you on here but definitely stick it out. I go through periods of thinking Steemit is kinda bullshit but ultimately I'm not going anywhere.
One of my biggest frustrations with Steemit is I can have a post get 140 upvotes and I make peanuts while someone else's post that gets 7 upvotes makes $100. To me that is completley out of wack, it doesn't reward quality content and even worse it continues to put shitty content front and center so for people who come here to consume content they are blasted with shitty content.
Think about how people complain about Youtube putting one video in front of them they don't like and say their algorithm is stupid. Now look at Steemit where a large proportion of the hot and trending content is utter crap. It just makes for a bad platform.
Stick it out man. I see your making like $60 per post, I realize you have a lot invested so proportionally that's not huge huge but shit thats still still like a min wage job. I don't have as much invested as you but shit I've been on here since last June, I'm pretty consistantly active and I make 0.50 cents a post adn I'm not going anywhere because I'm hoping for longterm growth of the platform. We'll see. Stick it out.