I think Steemit should be more User Friendly to Mainsstream Users. And some Aplications the Users spend more Time here.
Like A Friend area,
Some Chat and something like facebook groups.
For sure the Trending page is sometimes Anoying as shit. But this is not the biggest problem to get some success with steem.
I agree 100%,
Steem it is a good platform, but I can say that it has changed... The whales, and people with lots Steem power, have too much power when it comes to rewards, and upvoting friends, and people they know. For example same people's articles always get to the top of hot and Trending sections, whether they worth it or not. This is mainly due to whale's voting their friends' articles.