I am not saying they shouldn’t join but for fuck's sake, if Steemit is to move beyond the shit-coin culture, these people shouldn’t be promoted more than anyone else.

I kinda agree with this. But remember that steemit overall is evolving still a lot and fast. Remember in the beginning when posts were only about crypto stuff and blockchain talk? Then it was all about intro posts, and I guess at one point we saw this "gateway" to more users and took it quickly without thinking, then with a decline in price we noticed people not sticking around, the amount of new accounts flowing in not increasing and the "stars" that were supposed to help out with that might maybe not be that reliable. After all its not hard to create a ton of accounts and have them follow yours here, and even easier it is on other sites where you can pay people to create fake accounts to follow you. Instagram for something is a mess lately compared to the amount of fake likes that fly around and fake comments from fake accounts someone is just "leveling up" to sell later.

Then again, this means the userbase is still so very low, and hopefully with time more people will see the potential of the platform, and with a stabilize in price they would also see the investment opportunities and the outreach they can get here on all active users. My hopes are still good that the site will evolve for the better in time, its open-source after all.