Yes, i agree, the monetized ones. But the difference is, that if you hustle long enough and hard enough the financial reward can be substantial, hence it gives hope and motivation to move on while it is still FUN to use the platform.

Steemit however, is somewhat designed to be continuously bumping into same content creators, creators that you like or creators that are always trending and more often than not having big stake (which again results in circles) for example i enjoy reading your articles and engaging in discussions. But discovery of the content by specific keywords is almost non existent.

And since there are no efficient ways to discover that content and reward the authors, by the time whales and big stake holders will realize that they are only ones jerking off each other in circles, steem adoption will degrade, price depreciate and it will be too late to salvage it.

While those whales that actually want to reward different quality content creators still run into the same issue of awful content discovery mechanism, and engage in voting trails, since discovering that content is time consuming and no fun at all.

Or think it this way, why redit is such a huge community even though there are no rewards in place, and people are constantly joining it, while content creators on Steemit are leaving it. It's just that ugly sense of unfairness. And in current state Steemit does not feel like a place for creative freedom but more of a country run by oligarchs. It's just that simple.

You do not have to agree with me, it's just my opinion. I'm just stating obvious facts.