Most of what you said makes good sense. However, there is also the fact that steem has dropped now to 50th place. Soon we will not be in the top 50 anymore.

You are right that looking forward Bitcoin holders will likely be happy in 2 or 3 years. However once again though we don't know if we're going to be happy when we hold steem.

It's good to see that we have a coin that is being used a lot and that we we are in sixth place on that block activity website.

I look forward to the day when our chain becomes fully independent and everyone knows that we cannot possibly fall apart.