This is very much the problem - it's a lot of work to find content you value here and every dApp we add makes it harder. We need one or more effective mechanisms that present audience members with content that they will enjoy. The original idea behind Steem was that the curation system would do that, and at the top levels there seems to be a lot of denial of the fact that it is an abject failure.
Fixing it in some fashion, whether it's algorithmic or manual or some combination, ought to be a priority. Probably the first priority.
Youtube has A LOT more garbage content than steemit. How they solved the problem? By personalized content filtering system.