I'm ok with my personal position as a minnow, but I still fear for newbies not having enough RC to function unless someone delegates to them. I feel like it will deter a lot of people. I know they are working on delegating RC instead of SP, but it still requires someone to notice and help. And the spam comments came back anyway, which blew my mind - someone is wasting precious RC on a rep 25 account to leave spam comments??!
I basically haven't been promoting Steem since, because I feel like it's an automatic introduction to the system where people will think, "this sucks, this is stupid" and give up. When people don't understand blockchain or Steemit in general yet, even if I say, ok, I'm going to delegate you some SP so you can function to a friend, they're probably going to think that sounds fishy, like I'm inviting them to some pyramid scheme, since so many people still scoff and call crypto "magic money on your computer." They'll think, "why doesn't the system work without you helping me? It can't be very good." Without enthusiasm going in, I just doubt people will stay.