But is there a guarantee that the changes you make will be accepted, that your work will not be in vain?

I was hoping that in writing this post, it would clarify some thinking for me. I enjoy coding and more so, problem solving. I have no doubt that if I'd achieved what I aimed to, then I'd be able to talk to the right people to get it deployed into live. The problem is, that the codebase, more specifically the front-end and back-end are so intrinsically interlinked that separating them is impossible. And therefore the wish to change it in the way that I need to extremely difficult, if not also impossible.

So I'm essentially highlighting that expecting community members to unravel it all and help improve steemit.com in some way is unlikely to ever happen. Especially without anybody getting paid a decent salary for doing it. Which reaches the conclusion, that for Steemit.com to improve, to progress then Tron needs to employ somebody. More than somebody A team.

Maybe a discussion is needed so that everyone can suggest quality improvements for steemit.com?

In my opinion, without a significant and active developer community, this effort would be in vain.