I definitely understand the concerns.

I wrote a post today (which I will link at the bottom because I write several each day) concerning some potentials for SMTs, competition for users etc. When it comes to some aspects like bidbots and the delegations that support them, it potentially might lose favour as a passive income if SMTs choose to do something like reward for curation and delegation to them instead. Plus, they could easily implement airdrops on active SP, not delegated. That way, those delegating to bots would lose the possibility to take advantage of their full wallet.

As far as UI goes, I think there are going to be a host of options that will eventually make Steemit obsolete or, change its core function. Being a catch all isn't doing it favours. Hivemind will bring new options for Devs and will make analysing the chain much easier which means the devs will have some number support to direct them rather than guesses.

It is hard to see all of the possibility through all of the shit drama but, there is a massive amount held here and hopefully, we as a community can overcome ourselves to make this place something not only entertaining, but useful for a wide variety of cases.

today's post mentioned:

https://steemit.com/steem/@tarazkp/cross-blockchain-competition-and-smts