I do agree STEEM needs to serve all these interested parties.

"The minnow blogger telling us about his kids
The blogger that has the potential to become an influencer"

Currently the platform serves mostly this type of persons (wisdom of THIS crowd), attracted to an alternative to some other social media platform. A centralized platform alternative.. ?

They love their iphones and have no idea how they work inside, don't know how to set the video cam on their phone to HD either.

Seems to me the UI has to rule the day... to really have a "GPT" work correctly, because nobody will understand what's under the hood, and they really don't want to..
(Jeez the term GPT in itself makes me cringe, ouch...)

Most people today still ask me "what's an SMT?"..