I agree that it needs features to attract users. We know the principles work, but there's still some tweaking of the algorithms going on. I'm still not sure what Steemit wants to be. As a pure blogging platform it works fairly well, but if it wants to be a social site then it needs work. Do we want things like photo albums? That might encourage photographers. I think it needs to appeal to all forms of content creator, e.g. musicians, video makers. Those people have have struggled to earn from their work on-line and Steemit could be a solution. It is still early days, but I think we will see some more developments in the next few months.