I think people really need to put a wall in their mind between Steem and Steemit. I don't disagree with anything you have said about the problems with the steemit site but you have Steem Power not Steemit Power.

Personally I would much rather have the steemit team working on the blockchain than on the steemit site. Someone said they thought the SMT initiative was just a cash grab. The only way they make money on SMT is if we all make money on SMT because it draws more people to the platform.

All the people that promote Steem should be doing just that, promoting Steem. If you bring someone to the platform tell them steemit is one of the options for connecting not the only option. If more people start using one of the other sites one of two things will happen. Steemit Inc will put more bodies at the front end or they will openly acknowledge by inaction that the blockchain tech is far more important to them which honestly it kind of should be since they all have a lot of Steem and if the blockchain fails it really wouldn't matter how well the site works.