I think Steemit has struggled to identify who its target market is. In all my conversations with others and presentations I have watched, Steemit has been compared to Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, as a platform for authors, as a platform for microbloggers and so on. Each of these platforms target different users and different behaviors (with some overlap) which require different tools to be developed. I don't think that Steemit has sufficiently defined what that initial niche is.