Same question here... excellent gif...

I think that the problems are many :

1. no decentralized hosting, it is just the chain and the chain is dpos, meaning the delegate makes way too much and don't share with their voters...

2. the medias will never support steem, they get too much money from fb, twatter and co to be honest about decentralization.

3. having to pay 10 steem to get an account, or having to register sucks, when for example with bitmessage you just load and go.

4. the isreali amp project may one day finally kill steem, by being really decentralized and uncensorable.

5. personally, I don't regret to have sold most of my steem for pivx... and I did it for the reasons above.

6. the format of the website sucks, I prefer forums, cleaner, faster and simpler. then 5 min delay between posts sucks (I would need a "loader") and the lack of native exchange support for steem...

7. most people only care about their posts, don't ever visit others pages, and the bot swarm, multivote and others groups clearly loot the reward supplies...

will see... personally I wait for better... just the unilateral undiscussed removal of the number of view clearly illustrate how arrogant steemit incorporated has become...