Biggest problem I see is small amount of tools helping in that process. Kudos for @roadscape for his awesome steemd.com and @steemchiller for his awesome SteemWorld.org

I felt like that might be the case but didn't want to make a statement on it because I assumed there might be a ton of super-secret-tools that only witnesses knew about ;-)

Side note, I guess that all that HF20 drama that we are experiencing would be far smaller if we would have more fancy UI/UX with significant gamification:

Absolutely it would! Think how amazing it'd be if there was a whole team at Steemit, Inc. focusing on the front-end experience, always adding new, little "insignificant" things that make people smile and feel good about spending their time here.