Totally agree with the clutter. It's been really tiring going through a lot of garbage "new" posts as a new user on Steemit. Coincidentally I posted about it a couple days ago here.

If any of you have any tips on gaining traction do share. I saw a post about liking 200+ posts, following xx people, but it's really hard to find quality content that I am interested in, amongst all the clutter.