At first I tried to tell myself that this way of perceiving Steem is wrong, because it reduces the lack of trust that people have when they think about investing in Steem, but then I realized that all of these points in your post are true problems of Steem blockchain. Running away of these problems won't help at all, they should be solved as soon as possible.

Steem of course has a lot of potential, is very scalable, has no fees, but we should not stop at this point because we can do much better. I hope we will see improvements in the near future, and also there is a good start the fact that @ned started to use Steem again after such a long time!