I agree. Quality over Quantity is the way to grow the community the most, and the best!

I also agree that there is an absurd amount of people who take the alternate approach. Since one of the recent Hard Forks, people are no longer limited to the amount of posts that they can receive curation / author rewards for. As such, people are generating 20+ articles per day, and self-voting all of them to receive the highest amount of reward from their own Steem (as opposed to upvoting others' content across the platform).

My hope is that those people eventually get bored because they're effectively wasting their time by doing this on a daily basis for pennies. Then the real people who want to make this community better will continue to grow, and continue to make Steemit a better place with some amazing Original and Interesting Content!