Man, you know that all this is BS. The thing with Steemit is, you can get quicker small money, compared with an YouTube channel or a classic blog. But that's it. You and your content are solely dependant on the market moves.
My argument is you! You've been working like crazy for months, putting really valuable content out. But still, your rewards doesn't go over 20$, and as soon as you will stop posting, nobody will really care and the earnings will stop.
All this because is too early for Steemit, and the content is not evergreen. After seven days is equal with almost zero.
Is still worthy to be on Steemit, but I call the boom in two or three years from now. Implying that it will still be around :).
Why I am saying that? Well, this is a prototype. Bigger, smarter people are already working on something more user friendly :).
Yeah, it's really hard for people that are not cool with the big guys.
Giving up and just switching because its currently hard times ain't how I roll.
Accumulate tons of SBD and cash that out at a high prices=enough cash for years, I just wait for that.