To be honest, the future of steemit is really depends on how much people change their behaviour against using the "social network". From only sharing to sharing for money. I have to say, steemit really is a revolution for all kinds of social network platform existing.
But I have to say, the speed is a bit slow compared to what I expected. Maybe we are not doing good enough, or maybe it's kind of hard to change the human behaviour. However, I believe that the behaviour can be changed one day.