Maybe it's just stabilising. Sites like this get hyped and that can push the price to an unsustainable level. The rewards some people have been getting have been excessive. No other site with only a few thousand users is paying thousands of dollars for a post. Youtubers with millions of dedicated followers might achieve that.
I think anyone can make something here. You can get paid for good comments, even if you don't feel you can create great posts. Even if you do post you need to build an audience, and that could take time. I do think there should be some reward for recruiting users that depends on how well they do here. Steemit needs more active users.
Spot on @steevc more active users, it needs to entice more. Can't say .01 is going to entice someone to comment though? How do we entice more people to come on the platform....how do we entice people to want to buy Steem? If Steem is just being sold and not bought, then the price keeps going down and down. Like any currency it needs to be desirable to own.