very useful advice!
I'm not a beginner in blogging, because I'm here for 3-4 months already and before it I used Golos (Russian clon of Steemit), but I am not a very experienced blogger either, so I like advice from elder "brothers"-)
title, essence, topic, emotions - right you're but sometimes it seems to me contacts mean here not 85% as you say but 99%-) and it's not because of corruption (if I can call it so) or commercial impact but just because of the fact you're so invisible when you have low SP and few followers.
You can write perfect articles and touch urgent topics but nobody will see it. But from the other hand it stimulates people to be attentive not only to their own blogs but to other people's ideas and writing as well, it creates collaboration and it's not so bad in fact)
Steemit gives many chances to know the world from different angles.

I hope it's not a very stupid comment which you mentioned in your post-))