I might be the most bullish person on this site about the future of STEEM.

That's maybe an understatement :)
Indeed we need to have patience. We can compare it with this:
When people started to build bridges, lots of these early attempts failed and bridges collapsed. But still because they did see the value of bridges, they kept learning from their mistakes and improving the bridges. Now a days, we rarely see a bridge collapse.
The same goes for creating software, new project or technologies. All will have their issues. The project, technologies and so on, who do learn from their mistakes (other from the mistakes of others) will have much more chance to succeed than the others.
If we look at the crypto market, I would be very glad if 10% of the coins, would rock the world. And it would be better if the only coins in my portfolios would be these ones. To bad, this won't be the case!

The Steem blockchain, indeed has some issues. But at least the ones who are evolving it are learning and fin tuning the system. We the early adopters do feel this, sometimes for the good, sometimes for the worse. The people who will enter within 2 years from know, will think that the platform then always will have been like that! The more wintered Steemians then, will beg to differ full of anecdotes :)

So, yes I will have patence together with you! And while I do have patience, I will enjoy my time here on the steem blockchain!

Cheers,
Peter