I sometimes ask myself what will happen to of steemit when another (more balanced and friendlier to new users) descentralized crypto social network comes along. Then I remember that in each commercial niche there is always space for 3 types of companies: the first one(the creator of the tech), the most advanced one(who perfected it the most), and the most popular one. If you don´t believe me, just look what happened to web browsers(internet explorer vs firefox vs chrome), or operating systems(windows vs linux vs macOS).
When I realize that, I can safely assume that even if another descentralized crypto social network surpasses it, steemit will still be around for a long time....