Many people are leaving steemit, cause the first thing that they see when they log in are the posts that make $100,$200,$300 or even more and then, when their first 5 posts make like $0.15 they are getting angry at the community for not recognising their work. Patience is the only way forward, and buying steem power will provide results in the future, but it's the reward only for patient people, so grats on being smart my friend and gl in your steemit journey :D