For the sake of words lets say even if Steemit goes down, there will be Steem dapps. and Steem will be running on the track and we will seeing some major run as we speak.

Like Musing many are rushing into it and yes it is getting hard for the new users but in the long run it sure is helpful and by gaining SP they can do their usual work in here and if not then there are ways like Musing, Steemhunt. 

The hardfork brought quite some unfortunate things but it was to be done for the launch of SMT and those will change the course of Steem.