absolutely right, instead of saving costs, more investors should be found to push the site. When @ned recently introduced the updated steem.com site, I just thought why not finally create a similar design for steemit.com...plus some newcomer supporting structure, none that discourages, like after the last hard fork. Your criticism concerning the Trendings, for example, must be approached somehow. What you want for steemit or on the platform steemit these days would be the thought that the brave Steemian should think for himself .