Agree. Quality in the eye of the beholder.
There is a lot of development plug-ins for steem already, it's a surprise, including steemchat and notifications. But yeah this is not made apparent to users, as in the early facebook apps.
And is Steemit going to try mixing discussion forums with microblogging? Ok, i guess. Maybe it should just focus on microblogging, and not try to be a facebook for friends and family.