We should stop comparing Steemit with Facebook and other social media platforms because on Facebook you can post BS as often as you want. On Steemit it's a hard way to reach a top lvl, because you must either be a blogger/writer or an investor (or maybe both). You HAVE to deliver quality stuff unless you are happy with a few ghost followers replying to you "i follow u foloww me pls".
Every steemian who has a serious approach to provide the community with valuable content cannot be interested in just more users. I know that you are aware of this fact, @jerrybanfield. But I think as a top lvl witness (I set you as proxy! ;) ) you have much more influence to the development of this platform. One of my urgent recommendation is a new function to set about 5 tags as favorite, maybe as a sticky panel at the bottom of the screen or so. For example one of my most visited tag is #steemSTEM, but it doesn't appear yet on the tags list at the right side. The more users we get, the more we need a function to create sub-communities. This is possible by using tags - but they must be easily to access! 3 mouse clicks are too much for a flowing communication in a very fast growing user base.
Thank you for reading. ;)