Sorry if I'm addressing the question to a wrong person, but @elipowell seems to be the right one.
- Why there is still no WYSIWYG Editor, it's eliminating a vast majority of users
- Why there is such a lag for account creation and why it's not free? In real world, if you need to pay to join - it's almost certainly a scam. You need users, to boost the price of Steem, not 1 Steem to earn, not a dollar to earn
- Why it's impossible for people outside Steem to interact with the content? Make a guest account, make this place interactive
- Add some skins, some templates... You know how WP looks like. If Steemit wants to be The Blogging Platform, it must look like a blog
- You are supporting several communities - why? What are you getting in return? Are those communities doing well or not? How do you measure it
- You added banners - why? The users are not coherent, what can be sold to some people with some interests living somewhere? Isn't it better to profile (build the communities) around some type of content?
- Why don't you make some sort of strategic partnership? With Patreon, SkillShare, SqareSpace, GuruShots, whatever digital product with a strong base of users. You are printing Steem no matter what, just channel it into the right hands.
If you want some help for a radical change - I'm here. I have a lot of experience in what I'm doing and I have a lot of references to back up my claims.
Sorry for being pessimistic, but if it stays in this form - it will die off.
Just like pagers or telegraphs or VHS players. Obsolete tech.