Yes, it's a frustrating user experience.
The only good thing for this experience is that the users can taste a little bit of how frustrating the people in China, inside the Great Fire Wall.
One major problem for Chinese people to use Steemit is registration. Because Steemit registration uses Google CAPTCHA, the image of the CAPTCHA cannot show up. Therefore, they cannot register Steemit.
When I visited China, I tried it. It's a more frustrating user experience.