If a platform gives you an advantage in your every day life, you want to use it. when you are on the outside of steemit, you see it as something great. Then you realize some people gave themselves a huge advantage, which is not ethically right, but why should you care? a user will join steemit because he can also benefit from it, and this is what he saw before joining, even while others were abusing the system... This is why the platform can and will grow despite these problems. Anyway they will be fixed eventually.