As you say, I don't see any reason to compare Monero and Steem to be honest. They are two very different projects, quite succesful and leaders in their respective categories. It would be more interesting to make comparisons in the same categories, for instance Steem / Lunyr / Synereo / Primas in the content publishing and monetization category, Monero / BTCP / DeepOnion / Zcash in the privacy-oriented coins category. Lunyr looks much better than Steem, DeepOnion has many more features than Monero. So much more to discuss in these kinds of comparisons.