Yeah SMTs are going to play crucial contribution to the mooning of STEEM and the discovering of steem potentials by big institutional investors. And that's one of the reasons many steemians thinks they are game changers anyways.

The only scenario i can imagine that steem will not grow is if the cryptocurrency industry doesn't grow or stop growing. But the way things are moving now, it suggest that the cryptocurrency industry is sort of like destined to grow, so for sure STEEM will pick up too.