Completely agree with OPs points. Mainly regarding New Users and how they have absolutely no power.

It's in the best interest of this platform as a whole to give more power to new users. Right now only a handful of whales get to decide which content becomes popular, which in turn encourages everyone else to post the same type of posts--- basically anything promoting and praising Steemit. If you want this platform to be an advertisement for Steemit keep it this way. If you want it to be a melting pot for fresh content discovery where the majority gets to decide on what content they want to see then change it, give the users a bigger mic