Yes, it has recently changed into that, like an over-complicated twitter with bots and brigades you have to make deals with to get anywhere.
I would be really pissed if I were you, that is a lot of your original content that they just decided to keep. That was not the deal when this started... I have a whole series of how-to's I was going to reformat for this place, but it is more fun to post on a forum where it will generate discussions for years. Without tips, votes, and replies it seems dumb to leave anything good buried here.

The only thing I can think to do is try to get people to make a post talking about what would make it worth staying around for. There is not much time left though, if steem hits a nickel I think its done.