you'd think one would have an EASY way to exchange steem for Eos. This seems obvious

Why does everyone in crypto force you to buy/trade Ether to participate in anything? (see Scorum-- they idenitify with related assets but won't let you use Steem to buy into their ICO).

Man I made almost the exact same sort of observations back in the summer when I first got into all this.

I happen to think it's a real shame they didn't do an airdrop for steem holders. Seems a logical thing to do.