Well my dear sir, you are fortunate to have curved a niche for yourself before the advent of steem and steemit. So the money you get here may be peanuts to you may, but your peanuts may be pay check to some of us who are struggling to find out footing.
As for don't do steemit for the money, I think a growing number may not find do that notion digestible because whether we like it or not, money plays a great deal of our being here, doing daily post and so on.

Thank you for the thought provoking content though, it was an interesting read.