Thanks for the post. I am currently a vanilla Steemit user; I use the website itself. I will eventually delve into one of the apps probably Steem Plus since it's just an extension to Chrome or Firefox.
I am still running into the issue on my mobile app for eSteem, I can't interact with anything once I make a post or comment and have to close the app and re-open it. Unfortunately I reported this months ago but alas no updates to the app have been released.

There are certainly some of these that I didn't even know about so that was cool to learn about ones such as Steem Press or Steem Peak.

I've heard of Minnow support but don't know much about it, I'm going to give it a look now though and perhaps join it to get try to get some help and help out others.

I was lucky enough to get into the comment whore game early and didn't make an actual post on the platform for several weeks I believe. I think that one of the best things I can tell anyone that's new is to start it out with the comments! I will occasionally pop over to the "new" section and comment on some noob's post telling them the easy way to gain traction and I've gained two people I follow because of it so that was cool.

I find it funny that some people don't even make it to the end of a post before commenting or clicking off; they don't even bother so your comment at the end was amusing but I know it happens too often.