So much you say here echoes my own sense of what Steemit is about @lifesacircus... I was just writing about "patience" earlier, and perhaps the key in it all is that authenticity demands patience.

Following now... and partly swayed by the fact that you're a cat person!

=^..^=

Whether it's Steemit, or the music industry, or life... so-called "flashes in the pan" and "shortcuts to fame" may offer moments of brilliance, but so often the outcome is that you end up with a so-called "one-hit wonder."

These people who use bots all the time... strip away the bots, and they have nothing. Which tells us that what they do is not capable of standing alone, on its own merits.