I miss just being able to click the 100% power up button. It seemed obvious to me that you do that when you start. They way I first saw steem was they were trying to harness the benefits of power users, without ending up the common problem of power users having no stake in the platform and milking it dry. I want move up that ladder.

But the importance of giving yourself steem power is the reason steem holds value in the first place. You have to buy/earn a stake in the ecosystem before before the ecosystem will start seriously rewarding you.