I expect steem to be here every day when I wake up and go full bore to make it succeed within my limited abilities to do so. I try and usually succeed in ignoring the nonsense at the top.

In the long term:

Either:
The current big guys will continue to ignore positive developments while fighting among themselves. A certain number will lose faith and collapse the platform when they take their money out.

or:
New money will come in fast enough to make the current big guys irrelevant when/if they do leave.

I have a very limited understanding of the financial issues here but the game seems to be rigged in ways I cannot comprehend.

On a personal level, steem has supported my life of poverty in SE Asia since December 2017. I will be very grateful for this to continue. I also can create great looking posts in my niche topics of weight loss and alt-health to spread to my other social media.

And never forget this lady at the front door. Creating "unrealistic expectations out of Steem" since before I got here and still yet.

She was sent to me by one of the 20+ content creators I brought in here when he left in disgust in November 2017. The rest of them all left quietly.

The most promising developments I notice are the development of many easier-to-use dapps and good and growing community support in an abundance of wide-ranging communities.

Second to that, but potentially more important are some new blood with money coming in to invest and try the place out. Hopefully they fly under the radar and do not get killed by whales as I have seen in the past.