So much of satisfaction comes down to expectations. If you expect to make lots of money on here right away (which some people promote this platform as offering) then unless you can start by putting $100k into STEEM, you're going to be disappointed.

But if you come expecting to gradually grow a community of people who really like your content creation, and finding others you appreciate too, and also having the potential to earn something within those interactions, then you stand a chance.

You're still going to have to do an awful lot of work to learn the rules of this platform. It's not simple to just wing it. I mean there are 3 different currencies alone! And then there's VP/mana, now RCs, and so on. So there is a lot of work to put in up front just learning, and no customer service department.

And then there are the unclear paths to success. My path was waiting to post for a couple weeks and just commenting on the posts of others, since that's where the people were. I commented probably 20 times a day, substantial comments. Once I started posting I already had followers ready to comment on my material as I had on theirs.

That's not the best approach right now if you can't start by buying STEEM, because you just can't comment enough to take that approach. So maybe a mixed approach, where you split the commenting between here and Discord groups. Or maybe start posting a bit sooner and share the posts to Discord groups. Or SteemChat.

One way or the other, you have to find where the people are then regularly communicate with them. Preferably 7 days a week.

It's a big investment, but over time you can get traction on here and start becoming a part of powerful communities. Even with my fairly substantial SP and my personal relationships on here, I would still be earning only about $1 per post if I didn't have community relationships.

Investing in becoming a part of communities on here is the best investment of your time.