I completely agree. In particular, the part about people underestimating the technical hurdles that parts of this process entail. Anything at all that is more complicated than Facebook in the new user account process has the potential to hinder Steemits potential. We want as close to idiot-proof as possible. Heck, it would great if we could boil this down to something like a QR code scan.

Heck, I'm been in IT for 20 years and I still can't even figure out a way to delegate SP that doesn't give my key to an outside-Steemit API.

Then again, maybe I'm part of the problem.