First of all I must say this write up is really great and it's full of truth.
To be sincere and honest I joined this platform for two things, the money which is very important and to and to develop interest on been creative,and I must say my number one reason has not been meant fully but am still happy because the creative part of me is growing.
So what I think is that the steemit community should still make the platform much more easier for more people to be friendly with it just like facebook.
Yea because on facebook you could actually make a post of 4 meaningful sentence and you get a lot of comments and likes, but on steemit it not so, you have to write,write and write and some time you not get anything from it, because the upvote is monetary. On facebook just a like gives you joy where there is no money.
So in conclusion I will suggest there create something like a LIKE feature apart from upvote to keep people encouraged.
Thanks @ogoowinner