To explain the vision to non-developers will be hard. The Steem blockchain in itself is hard to sell to people because it is a total paradigm shift. Most people still think it is a pyramid scheme. But I would not worry too much about this. First, make those people happy who understand your vision. Like the ones on this thread. Then, when we are happy, take care of the rest of the world :) The static-site builder community would be glad to have a good comment system.
I agree the next big step forward would be to allow the creation of threads without the requirement of them being attached to a Steemit post.
I might need to work on removing the jquery tangle 🙈 before the Gatsby community will accept it haha.
LOL