Hey @ond ... don't worry, you're not alone in these thoughts... but yes, the truth is that nobody really cares. Everyone is doing whatever pushes their own specific agenda and/or makes them the most money.

Having said that, a LOT of people's "own agenda" is good for Steem as well... and that's what is so beautiful about this place. Anybody can build whatever they want on top of Steem and they don't need Steemit Inc itself to do anything... in fact it's probably better if 3rd parties do create all the apps etc. that are needed... less reliance on a central body controlling everything... we all own a share in the blockchain after all :-)

P.S. The "Minnow Hell" that new users go through though is VERY real and I've literally seen 100s of friends stop blogging because of it... I wrote about some of it here (https://steemit.com/steemit/@braaiboy/your-vote-doesn-t-count-for-shit-and-you-don-t-matter) and a few others that you might be able to find through Google.

I can offer some good news though: @busy and @steempeak both offer UIs that are miles ahead of Steemit.com and @steem-plus is a very nifty little chrome plugin that extends the steemit UI, that you will want to check out as well.

Good Luck... hope to still see you here in a year or two ;-)