I still think that the most valuable solution builted on top of steem is steemit and by growing the community it would growth steem value. I think eos would be a better solution for a lot of things, but for a social network steem works fine. But as you stated:
But as you stated:

The leadership of STEEM built steemit.com as a demo system, to prove out STEEM. Not to turn steemit.com into a competitor to FB or reddit or etc.

So I'm a little bit confused about the steem future. I know that technology is not the only important thing on crypto space, branding plays a big hole on the field. So maybe steem and eos will serve different niches.