Finally, someone else is talking about this.
Every time I plead with the community to make Steem more palatable from a marketing standpoint, the cry is always the same: "We have to perfect the backend first!"
That is the same losing mentality that took down Novell and mid-90s Apple. We need some real leadership on this issue because Steemit is languishing right now.
I don't think I've ever heard this sentiment expressed. Our bottleneck affecting conversion right now is user experience and has little/nothing to do with rewards or curves or other consensus-related algorithms.
It's also worth noting that there are separate and parallel teams working on our user experience and the blockchain. The former is several times larger than the latter.