Amen! A biiiiig and huge amen! This is some extremely important and rather well thought through arguments, and they apply not only to Steem, but to all projects in general.

Also, Google built a search engine that people wanted to USE, THEN got huge :)

At Byteball - we are so fortunate to have a vast set of features up and running and not just a whitepaper of bold promises. This allows us to change focus to the actual use of the platform. Put the tools in the hands of the people who needs them, I say.
So the main task is basically to get a lot of creative, productive, innovative and entrepreneurial people to discover the possibilities.

Only through use and actual adoption, will any project ever succeed.