I agree the premise of the platform...

The reality is:
navigation on the steemit platform sucks.
there is no categorizatiom
the search sucks
and the editing of posts and blogs is a joke...
Add to it that it takes a week to get approved for an account....
And they are shooting themselves in the foot...

No matter how much @JerryBanfield promotes the platform, if 9 out 10 people walk away because they had to wait a week for a signup.

These are huge barriers to entry to the common man....

And 9 in 10 walk away because the interfaces suck and aren't easy to navigate and aren't attractive or can't find relative content easily by different methods in a common sense way.

That means 99 out of 100 people who were excited to try the platform got turned away absolutely nothing but stupidity in design...

There is one other problem, once you lose a potential customer it is 10 times harder to get them to come back and try something again.

These things need to fixed in short order other wise SteemIt will be just like every other failed social media site...