I honestly don't really care that much about the price myself. The way I look at it right now, all the services give anyone the opportunity to earn Steem without anything of an investment and just sell it. The top trending post right now is a good example. No doubt he's a quality content creator, but looking at the wallet it's clear that the only objective is just to get the $$$ as he's using a service paying 1.5% to convert the post reward into liquid Steem directly to sell them. It just looks to me like that has become the 'winning strategy' on this platform since there is little to no earnings difference when having more SP.