I'd like to see Steemit grow too and for more people to take interest in it as well. But this platform has a serious problem with attracting talented creators when it rarely rewards its users for their hard work and contributions. Steemit has created a one-sided system that only benefits a handful of people, while shunning the rest. Its often the spammers who get the most recognition too. I've seen posts that were nothing more than a few sentences of broken text earning $60. How does this encourage new users to want to contribute to this platform?
They need to change their ranking algorithms to better focus on quality content and stop ranking spam on the front page. All that spam is going to continue to devalue this platform if it continues. Ranking content based on upvotes makes no logical sense at all.