Yes, I'm with you, I don't like how steem is going now, i also see little support for small users, some dolphines and orcas aren't writing anymore and some are even powering down and leaving the platform.
We had a rise last year when they added Tron gains , and that was an excellent idea, but now there has to be something new, steem as a coin is in position #268 and I don't see any solutions.
I remember the time when the price of Steem was a bit higher last year and also when we have some SBD that usually pushed the Steem up and also motivated people. Now, nothing is happening even Tron sometimes appears and sometimes not, nobody knows how it i calculated. Despite of that Tron is on Rank 16. Why? what is better on Tron in compare to Steem?.I still think that Justin should mention Steem more often when he is somewhere or even in his social media. He is the best promoter. Like in the case with Dogecoin, it was enough for Elon just to post a photo of a dog the price of coin went up.
Only such celebrity promoter can bring masses and not the developing countries, even Hive is Rank #126. We slowly started to concentrate on "Koinos" hope that will be successful and will have such social media platform.