You raise many valid points, I do not agree with everything but much has already been sorted out in the comments.

Some might call this a “feature”, but in reality it is another way that users are being pushed away from using the platform.

I call it Darwin's sieve :) They'll come back later. Only the most resilient "steemers" get to become pioneers and to prepare the praries for the great storm. I find it great that this impedes growth naturally as long as the word "beta" grins from the upper left corner.

@bloe-orgy and @mark-waser have a good idea. I complained about whales being privileged in that they can fine-tune their upvote, minnows can't. The reason is that then their vote would vanish completely. It makes sense. But how to discern my upvote for a lazy "shitpost" with good pun from my upvote for a well-researched, thoughtful and inspiring post? Then, instead, give minnows the ability to "stack" their upvotes, even at an exponentially growing cost in voting power with each vote for the same post, if it is abuse that is feared. Sometimes, you just "want to upvote an article more than once". Why turn this into another "hooray democracy" à la Facebook? If it is equity, not equality we're after, this might be the way to go.

But this is the single most important one:

People want to see content they are interested in, not a bunch of content they don’t care about. We need to have the ability to filter out the tags they don’t want to see and be able to still have the trending/new/active, ect. ranking of posts to explore.

Make subscriptions to streems possible, allow to sort them by new/trending/hot etc. Make it possible to group these subscriptions into interests. I also believe it is already in the works, I got on everyone's nerves with this from my first week on.

And since we are at it: add a row to the table of the database; let it be in the format of a "post" with the difference it can be edited any time, indefinitely.

This way, a user could save all sorts of information for himself or for others: make it a "profile" page, where people introduce themselves, link to their favourite posts, present their friends, embed a soundcloud player. This is what made MySpace great, and it can make MySteemit great, if it is possible to also include a CSS script to beautify the profile page. Later, maybe, I expect no miracles.

Let this be where also the presets for one interface can be dumped for another interface to parse. Let us say there are steemit.com, steemstats and piston.web, and I have a list of streems I follow on this interface, then I can embed that information XML-style and, if the other interface supports it, read it out and activate it. The possibilities are endless.

All the streamlining of the user experience, so that these need not be edited in one huge text file, could come long after that.