While I agree with this overall sentiment, it isn't totally set in reality. It would be awesome if the people with the best content, in five years say, ended up being the ones with the best payouts, but the way this website works, that just isn't the case. The users who will be doing best in 5 years are the ones who are raking in SBD and converting it to Steem. In 5 years they will be the new dolphins or even whales, and regardless as to whether or not their content is amazing, they will still be pulling in money by either upvoting themselves, or just due to the sheer number of followers they will have accumulated by then. This platform doesn't reward quality, it rewards investment. The people who put the most amount of their own money, or their own earned income back into the Steem pool, are the ones who end up the best off. Not to be a Debbie Downer, but I doubt very much that that will change. (Oh and I may be a speed reader, but I got the jist of what you were saying the first time around.)

Also, I think some people can go over the top, and that's not everyone's cup of tea. Quality content is surely grand, but there is something to be said about daily content as well. Some people like to consume content daily and don't want to wait a week in between each post, and it's not necessarily fair to assume that the longer it takes someone to produce content, the better it will be.

Admittedly I sometimes throw together a post, but for the ones that I work a long time on, it wouldn't matter if I spent 2 hours or 2 days on it (most specifically my music posts) I am known as the "one take wonder" in a lot of studio recordings I have done, and I believe that doing something 20 times wouldn't make it any better than the fact that I can do it right the first time. For me, efficiency can equal quality.

In the long run, Steemit does need way better content, but then dtube and Steemit need to get their shit together on how to reward said content. Not everyone can rely on spending a week on writing a really great blog and making so much from the payout that they can justify that time spent. Very few have that kind of time to gamble.