"Steemit have defended it saying it will help support the quality content, and the good posts currently earn over 20 steem so they will earn more." Sure. I mean, I've been writing pretty long very informative blogs, spent 2-3 hours and (mostly) got less than 1 steem. So I don't really know what they are talking about. Maybe they mean that we should not write what we like, but what most people like - to get upvotes :D And that's very childish thinking