I could not agree more. Even the ones (like myself) who feel they’ve signed up too late (a few months ago) are actually early adopters.
Now we tell newbies they need to step up their game, because they have to compete with more than 2k others. But once HF20 is implementeed, they will have to compete with many more . Steem is only in it’s ‘early days’.
New applications are being released at warp speed, which will make Steem even more popular.