still.. the "voting bot problem" is not solved yet...
and new user sign up with steemit is still more a sowjet still queuing up procedure than a US style marketing and CRM experience...
on the other hand new things like steemmonster are showing up..
at the end I believe there will be new use cases or en vogue things that will supercharge steemit and the steem price and that brings the old folks back posting and newbies in.. or not...