Breath of fresh air? More like a breath of fresh pig diarrhea.
It was probably the cringiest thing to have ever existed in the internet. People were asking and answering the dumbest things ever in an effort to chunk out as much content they could in order to leech that sweet steem delegation.
Honestly I tried too leech too but my answers were well thought (most of the time), honest and often humorous. Yet, I never got a nice vote. All votes went to spammers shitposting thousands of nonsensical answers that seemed like they were written by kindergarteners. Even bid bots brought more value then the joke called Musing.
Musing was literally cancer
You know what was cancerous on Steem? Bid bots controlling the majority of the reward pool. Back in 2018, Steem was a shit show content-wise anyway.
For the distribution of Steem Power, Musing was fantastic. And I hope most people have grokked the difference distribution makes for DPoS chains.
I saw a lot of good answers getting great rewards.