That's totally right.
The real problem that bring Steem is about equity/fairness.
In a Per-view or Per-click system, the rules are clear and gives an equity for each users.
The consensus in steem is based on whales power (SP), which means your post can have 1000 views / 1000 upvotes, and win like 5$,
when another post with 5 views, and 2 upvotes, can be at 200$.
You can certainly win more money than in the old system for a blogger, (like advertising, or product placement), but this example will somehow build frustration to people who think they deserve more, and just that other people voted by whales do not deserve this value. Some are even auto-voted by whales Bots..
Steem is based on incentive (money), and it's all public on each post, even in the post list.. You cannot avoid the comparative vision, and avoid building frustration to most of the people who does not reach even a few dollars rewards.
I think that's why we can consider Steem as a casino,
you need LUCK, or at least to build relationship, to talk to whales in the chat, or like dollarvigilente, to be famous and have a lot of followers. If you can't afford doing any of this, this is all about luck, and somehow they are not totally wrong about the casino thing..
I'm dreamer too, but i guess we just dream about being in the lucky ones, but this system will still create unlucky guys, frustrated people, and thats why it will not solve but only reproduce the world problems ;)
somehow contribute, a little bit, to a better life for a few more people than the old system. i admit it and thats why i love it and is a dreamer like you are ;)