we are seeing gradual but accelerated growth, the only problem is that we're not seeing the market price recognition from, still our convoluted and complex ecosystem could be causeing some delay in 'market acceptance'

in market theory, the longer a dormant potential pents and build up, the higher the burst will be, this is true even in an absense of a significant market factor that cause a sudden acceleration like ICO to ETH, or like SMT will likely do to Steem