Excellent point which is one that the developers here at steemit need to address. Although the website here is very simple, the register and log in process is not. I've suggested a solution for this here.

Also, the ability to customise your own page actually made MySpace pretty noisy on the eyes. I think a huge part of the emmigration away from MySpace to Facebook was due to Facebooks visual simplicity. No matter whose page you are on, everything is where you expect it to be.

MySpace also make another mistake steemit is currently making. It appealed to a particular market that swarmed onto MySpace, leaving everybody outside that market to believe that MySpace isn't for everyone.

For MySpace it was musicians and for steemit it's crypto-heads and anarchists. We need to really be careful that we keep extending this market out or we too could be replaced.