As a proud user of chainbb, i completely understand your point of view. In general, im curious to see what path steemit will follow, is it going to be a forum type, where people will 'have' to read the post ? One good thing is that it would direct the user towards reading a post and then upvoting it, which would ensure (at least on a higher level) that the content is good (and not for example just selfie pictures).

However, it could also take a complete facebook/instagram path, where random voting could cause a flood. Now, if everyone gets paid , even without decent content or without reading, it should be fine 'in theory', but im a little sceptical how this can be kept in the future.

P.S

the other steem clients, i assume thy have different developers? Or the same ones but have different functionalities?