The initial idea to give creative content the lifespan of a fruit fly was the one thing that bothered me from the beginning of my time on steemit. Why kill the earning power of content after a week?

The second thing is the limited nature of our blog compared to let's say a Wordpress blog with categories, various pages, etc.

Imagine a case where content could always be upvoted, and we had Wordpress-like sites. Then for example, someone might develop a blog-site for gardening, yoga, stamp collecting, guitar instruction, whatever -- and with time visitors themselves would join steemit to be able to comment and upvote, or create themselves. People would be focusing on quality and thinking longer term.

If steemit was mass adopted, those websites could be nice streams of income for the hard working people behind them.

Personally, it often feels like we are drops in a vast ocean. We need mass adoption and tens of thousands of organic steem-based communities, and I personally think the two things I mentioned above would have helped us achieve that (long term.)

Of course I realize this is a Don Quixote idea that will never happen, but that's how I see it.