I agree with you in terms of where you think the blockchain is intended for and how its intended to behave, but the user implementation is a whole other story.

Steemit is here, but the growth is dependent on the users. The topics that are discussed here leans heavily towards cryptocurrency. While I get it, this is a blockchain community and everything revolves around crypto, I think we will have a hard time growing if we don't curate more content that isn't blockchain related. Eventually we will grow out of that, but it needs to be known that we need to start finding ways to bring in outside content. I've been toying with the idea with a version of curie that exclusively looks at tags for adventure category to help promote another point of interest, or really anything that gives people a focus on other topics.

Happy thanksgiving!