No your comment is totally appreciated, I never thought of it that way. I just never liked resteems because they clutter up my feed, and I often choose not to follow people just because most of their posts are resteems.
Everything you said, I do via others channels. I personally recommend authors via private chat, or discord, or steemit.chat forums, I link to posts in comments, and our @SteemDeepThink initiative is partly meant to bring like-minded individuals together.
I've considered making a syndication bot. Something along the lines of Digg/etc for re-steeming posts that meet specific criteria. Maybe even doing a different daily category or something to keep it from getting too stale, and do keep from needing one for each category.