Whales curate. Upvote posts and spread the wealth, which is great but it would be great to see posts from them too, creations of their minds we can all enjoy and feel more engaged with them as they 'represent' Steemit, which in the end creates engagement with Steemit. (Don't say that would get them even more rewards taken away from the people. They give it back and I surely hope to see that GUI author_payout_value factored in to remove post rewards).
I miss @dantheman's posts. He was one of the only ones posting. It shows he really cares.

I'm saying this because some may believe that whales sit back in their comfy chairs, in their nice beach houses and look at what other people create and selectively upvote, etc. being all re-active instead of being pro-active.

The same feeling can be generated by Steemit's lack of integrating any of the great apps we have around directly into Steemit. We pride with them, they give recognition (through upvotes and sometimes mentions) but is that enough? It seems like Steemit is expecting others to build great apps, while internally there's a lot of (secret) development happening.

I know creating all of Steemit and keeping it whole is not an easy task, but we have great people around here too, valuable people, starting from devs, marketing specialists, researchers, data scientists, communication specialists etc. Why isn't Steemit Inc. tapping into this value in order to grow faster, respond to it's community faster, respond to the market faster (and recently, competitors)?
Delegation is the secret and I hope @dan and @ned understand this and adopt it and directly hire the best Steemians around to bring the business to the moon. I don't think they don't have the money and I also don't think most of the Steemians would mind getting Steem or SBD as paychecks if needed be.