I think there's lots of potential for more features. I'd like to be able to follow the tags I'm interested in and get relevant posts in my feed. That would aid in discovering users. I'm promoting people with my 'followfriday' tag, but I know few will see that.
My Feed page is where I go first. I'm curating that to get the content I want rather than going to the main Trending page. The whales are irrelevant to me really as they are unlikely to vote on my posts. I get a few cents from votes by 'dolphins'. It looks like you need 1000SP+ to give someone 1c on a vote.
I'm here to read interesting posts. I'm following the progress of Steemit, but I have other interests too.