You know that STEEM is built to have some inflation which causes lowering the price. The only way STEEM will go up is when more people join the community. There is a fee to join Steemit, so that doesn't really help in raising the price.
So, I don't expect the price to go up high. Except if some hard forks done. It's also not a big deal, It's better for people to have low prices. It's only affecting the whales!