I'm still a plankton and have been in here for over 2 months now and I completely agree with this. It's really really hard. The big ones always says to write "quality" content posts but with too many people now on steem and with people depending now on auto upvote services I doubt that is still the case. I see posts with over 50+upvotes but when you go inside the post, it only has less than 10views.