Wow, that's what I call a comment! :-)
Thanks for taking the time and putting everything together, @glenalbrethsen. I'll answer step by step...
I don't think enough of the Steemit C-suite spends enough time on their own site to really know if there's actually quality content or not.
Well that was exactly what I asked Ned in a comment a couple of days back and this was his reply:
I have used it nearly every day since launch.... and I read and see everything on here ))
It's actually sad that he sees everything on here and it's still the way it is.
If this was my project I wouldn't want it to look like that - not only one day. I wouldn't want to be asked about the poor quality of my network in a TV interview...
Hivemind! Oh yeah! The last update was posted one month ago, but only God knows if this will ever be implemented. I doubt it will be in 2018. While the days go passing by, more and more people leave the network, so in the end there'd even be very few to test it then...
Then you touched the user interface. Well I'm doing my blog posts in HTML since the steemit editor is so poorly equipped. They were promising to improve it at Steemfest no. 1 in Amsterdam. That was in November 2016 :-) I better not comment this..
Well thanks for stopping by and keeping the ball rolling.
You're right, if we don't talk about it, nothing will ever be improved.
Yet, I've gradually lost hope. Maybe that's it - and the current stage of steemit is all we'll ever have. Then we should be simply content - or move on.
Enjoy your weekend!
Thank you for finding time to reply to my rather lengthy comment. :)
First off, that's awesome you even got an answer back from Ned.
Second, he may very well use it everyday but it is literally impossible to see everything on here, so anyway. Saying something like "I'm aware of what's going on" would have been good enough.
It is sad. I suppose, though, if this is meant to be a social experiment, with a hands off approach, to see where it might lead, that it all makes more sense. If it's not, then creating an environment where value can thrive would seem to be the order of the day.
Promises to fix the UI since 11-2016. Hmmmm. Okay. Well, so much for that, then. In hindsight, it probably served as a good indication where the UI wasn't going to go if it started out basically like this in the first place, rather than actually being more modern. I've not seen much interest being paid to it, but I've only been here actively since January.
I guess we're all that we've got. We're our only hope. I'm not ready to give up on me yet. :) Of course, I haven't been here so long that the amount of broken promises given reach the proverbial moon STEEM's supposed to reach, either.