Regarding the Steemit team. You rightly pointed out that we all focus too much on them.

We would love to see less focus on us - in fact we positively dream of that.

But we are not seeing much growth of big independent manual curators. Alas too many get tempted to take an upwards view to other opportunities...

most authors do only what the Steemit team suggests and do not develop their own ideas and initiatives

Please, please, please, please... we want to see more independent ideas and initiatives that are not solely designed to get more votes from sc01 and sc02.