I agree with both of you. Seems the only "value" being rewarded is promotional material with marketable faces doing marektable things. Thats all well and fine if it is done so to bring in the masses so we all can win eventually. But if it becomes a cycle, then the entire idea behind steemit is another hollow, corporate nothing. Big wig pays ad agency so a mass of nobodys buy big wigs' vested product. Only to find the only value in it, is for the guy who sold you on it. In which case, every minnow, flounder, and tuna becomes nothing but sucker fish.
Hope that makes sense