From my point of view the Steem Devs seem to focus on the blockchain itself, which is fine actually, because due to that we are operating on great and stable blockchain technology. The sideeffect is that since I've joined steemit.com, no real update to the UI has been deployed.

Somebody has to take care of the backend development, so it's great that they are doing it. But the problem is that when Steemit is also responsible to maintain the most used UI, the development of user experience is lacking.

I've started to think that maybe Steemit.com should outsource the UI development. It would be quite logical because they have money but no time or other resources.

What is steemit?

Your observations are the same I've been doing. Not only there is lack of clarity for "what we actually are", there is the growing problem of signal-to-noise ratio getting worse because of too much users. No wonder people are not participating on the site because the user experience is so bad.

I just think that it would be a good time to think again about the focus of the development.

Yeah, this is spot on. There is no clear goal. It seems that Steemit Inc is just busy doing one thing today and next thing tomorrow, but nothing really useful gets done. If there is no goal or long-term vision, there is focus.