That was not my point at all.

What I'm saying is that it makes perfect sense to leave if you're not making enough progress here relative to other pursuits. And that's what a lot of people do. In fact, as the number of Steem users grows Steem should not be marketed as primarily as a place to earn but as a place to spend money. Those of us who've been active here in the past couple of years are the lucky ones as we have been able to participate in the early distribution phase of Vests (giving control over and ownership of the platform). Whether or not the platform will go anywhere will be determined by in the growth phase in the next few years. The apps developed to use the platform will make or break Steem.