I totally agree with you. I find STEEMIT is not the place for very serious content. It is not the place for recognition as an author, as the format is very touch and go. Whatever notice your article gets is gone within minutes, literally.

For me, I take it as it is. I get it. It seems the goal here is to make quick, "of the moment" statements, and move on, because your post will be impossible to find at a later time.

But, it's alright. Things are bound to change. The STEEM platform moves fast, ergo, its name. My suggestion to the developers is to modify the platform to include viewership credits, but it may require advertisers to do so. I see that many people have lots of upvotes, but almost no views. It means people and/or bots are upvoting based on the title, or mere existence of the post, and not even bothering to view/read the post itself. Then, there are quality, useful posts with almost no upvotes, some with lots of views, and some without. Surely, there needs to be more credit for quality of content.

This way we would get more credit as authors and curators, and our articles would have more monetary value.