Please do not forget that, for lack of aliens or "perfect men" Steemit is populated with mere humans. As much as we would like it to be a perfect garden with beautiful people, since there is no working selection mechanism, you'll basically see the same sad patterns from the real worl being reproduced here.
The great potential of Steemit is to introduce some kind of meaningful selection by encouraging desirable behaviours and discouraging predatory behaviours.
If someone thinks about it it's a good first step. If someone is working on something it will take time to implement and probably a few hard forks before it's done about right. But there remains potential.
However if nothing is being done in this direction, we might very well experience the opposite: as more and more people join the platform, we'll see "reversion to the mean" and Steemit will ressemble EVEN MORE than today the real world, warts and all