Ditto. Steem and Monero are very different projects and are not close competitors. Steem doesn't have any real competitors around anymore. Monero has lots of competitors as privacy coins are all the rage (for good reason). Monero will likely continue to grow and its awesome that their devs are fighting back against ASIC's but my money is on the smaller cap privacy coins like DeepOnion which has the added benefit of a VoteCentral and the Tor network (among many other perks).