i agree that steemit is hard to use, and is lacking features that FB and other social media platforms have. The reason for this is not clear to me, because it is possible to do just about everything on Steem, even stuff like private messenging, so it is disturbing to not see more evolution coming directly from Steemit Inc

However, the really cool thing about Steem (as distinct from Steemit, they are not the same thing) is that anyone could build their own Steemit. In fact, this website is open sourced here: https://github.com/steemit/condenser

You could take this code and make your own Steemit that runs on Steem. After all, this page is really just a sophisticated "blockchain explorer" like etherscan.io and the like.

Thats why you see other front-ends like Busy popping up, they're just different ways to view the blockchain. So ultimately, I have hope that if Steemit cant keep up, someone else will.