What you are seeing is called the founder's effect. Most of the people that are drawn to a service initially have a subset of shared interests. In the case of steem, it happens to be Crypto because that is what is running everything behind the scenes.
With other websites, the same thing happened, Reddit's early crowd was mostly programmers, and 4chan's early crowd was mainly anime fans.
As websites mature and the demographics get wider, the conversations will open up to cover a wider array of topics and opinions. This will eventually happen over time.
But will the inherit foreign nature of crypto deter the wider demographics?
When posting or enjoying Reddit, 4Chan, Slashdot and the all the other social bulletin boards throughout the decades, no one had to then learn about STEEM, Steem Power, Steem Dollars, Reputation, Followers, Whales/Minnows, etc.
And as SteemIt community tries to grow in breadth, there already appear to be dozens of new side projects like chainBB that involve RocketChat, Discord, and a level of attention well beyond what Slashdot and Reddit ask.
The current crypto-myopia seems dangerous.
Lopsided areas definitely could cause new users to pause perhaps. Learning something new never pushed me away but maybe for others it does.
Yea, I think learning something new is a part of it, but there is also the fact that SteemIt really likes to talk about itself.
So, if you aren't coming for news on crypto or want to hear the latest wondrous developments of SteemIt, you are in an awkward spot.
Yes, that is one problem that I think the steem team will have to deal with, but eventually those ideas I believe will be abstracted away, and knowing how to navigate those things will become easy.
Remember that for a majority of the users of a site like reddit, content creation isn't something that they do often, a majority of the users come in, comment, and upvote what they like, there is no reason why the average steem user of the future wouldn't do the same.
I see and I hope you are correct @laingsoft Thanks for commenting.