Heyyy! How are you doing? So nice to see you here :-)
You're completely right: sometimes it seems as if we had been here for decades.
Yet, currently there's some stagnancy, we neither move forward nor backward. It's as if everybody was waiting for some miracle to happen. SMTs, communities, the Steem app won't be miracles, but they might make a difference... It'll be interesting to see if some of these things will be ever implemented one day.
Until then we just do what we've always done: keep our own sub-communities alive, trying to make the best of it :-)
Thanks for stopping by!
Hugs and kisses from Canary Islands :-)