Yeah it's really hard to grow on steemit now, you joined even before I did and I see that you understand everything very well, I think steemit is not about quality but about coopiration, if you want to coopirate with me to make the change in steemit check my recent post, I am accepting people with more than 100 steem power and you can join our team if you want, we want to build a whale by coopirating a lot of minnows, I hope you will like my idea. Never give up on steemit ! We still have the chance to do something good.