Lots of great content here and I truly agree with @the-gorilla in much of what he writes! I feel like the arrival of Tron and Justin Sun made most people passive, and it left people waiting for things to happen from above.

Now there is a problem, nobody is doing things to improve the platform. Of course, you have content creators like yourself (@xpilar) and also the great Steemit Academy, which are great for producing content on the platform. But the platform itself isn't being developed, and that is a pity.

I totally agree with the fact that the bid-bots are ruining a lot, but we are human beings, so if we can earn much more from bid-bots like UPVU and others, we do so... but it doesn't serve the well-being of the platform itself.

However, change will only take place if the main developers actually start to do something and maybe do some forks and make changes happen. Since the hard-fork with Hive, that platform has done lots of stuff and tried to improve the platform, while Steemit has just remained at the very same location.