Where Steemit falls short, others will step in. Step in to compete for one thing... the thoughts, feelings and ideas of you and me.

I've been saying something similar since joining Steemit. If Steemit doesn't do things right someone else will come along, do it better and take it's place.

Steemit is far from perfect. However it IS a work-in-progress.

True.

Trolls are the vampires of the internet. They get their kicks out of sucking the energy out of others. Do not feed them.

So true but I think the platform should make it easy to report criminal actions like direct threats of violence/rape etc.

Having watched the the introduction of rewards demo, the rewards (AMPS) are controlled by those that choose to (or can afford to) amplify content.

No matter how you do it inequality will exist. This is an ancient problem which nobody has a simple working solution for.