Volume will fix a LOT of things on Steem-Some broken, some not :)

At least in the foreseeable near term, more volume will equal more bid bot usage. The numbers you use are average (or maybe median) that more volume will tend to push down. The very top should remain near the same.

You are correct in that the next million users are not going to all be bloggers. This place has used and rewarded bloggers to build the platform, but to really grow, to become truly mainstream is going to require shorter posts such as "Hi How are you doing?" It is the way of it, I think.

The trending page, as it is, is useless to me. Who knew or could have foreseen that there could be as much garbage at the top of the heap as at the bottom?

I believe it will self repair at some point. The steps being taken right now, as we speak, are trending in that direction.

Thanks for a great post. Well thought and written, in a perfect world would have made the trending page. Someday...