I don't think we'll be strong on the 2nd stage for at least half a year or so. The whales (and especially @steemit) can only power down this fast, and without good distribution of SP the content curation is skewed. Good thing is that there is a lot of effort to meliorate those problems. Another good thing is it might coinside that parts of stage 3&4 will be complete when the people can take advantage of them.
Myself, I finaly got paid for my services, outside my usual translation efforts. A lot of posts that I translate don't payout much, although they are good. But now I am working on something for the Russian segment and people there are all about #spreadthepower :-)