While I understand your sentiments completely, in the current state of this decentralized model, active participation is a must, otherwise the system fails. If you think of STEEMit as a traditional job where you get paid for your writing, the question becomes, who pays you? You would need people that have acquired STEEM--either by "buying/trading"--outside of STEEMit itself to bring it into STEEMit for the sole purpose of consumption.
In the current community model, there is no "boss", no entity that is making money from somewhere to then give you to create great content. Or as is the case for a startup, self-investing to create great content and draw people in the hopes of having a model to make that money back. Instead, it is a you scratch my back, I scratch your back, model. You write about physics, but may love art, so you give your votes there. Someone else writes about art and gives to biology. And on and on the wheel turns creating an economy that flows. If everyone comes here only to make money and does not give any, the whole thing comes to a grinding halt.
So you see, either the wheel turns or the content on STEEMit reaches a high enough level and is organized in a way that is easy to find so that people come to STEEMit with externally acquired STEEM with the sole intention of spending it on the content they consume. Until then, STEEMit cannot support people who come here only to create and make money. Does that make sense?
My question is, what does STEEMit want to be, a community or an outlet? Both are valid, but the design of the system depends on knowing your identity.
We are not discussing steemit at all. We are discussing steemSTEM. It is 100% different.