New to steemit - first impression

I'm very new to steemit (btw Hello!)  I've been researching a little about it, I've been looking around a bit and I'm now ready to provide my very first impression as a fresh "content user" in the most constructive way I can.

## PROs:
* I love the idea even though I realize that I don't grasp it completely yet.
* I like the community around it. It feels like a welcoming, polite and balanced community.
* Most of the content I've been reading so far seems quite curated and deep. Similar to Medium from the reader perspective.

## CONs:
* The navigation experience is pretty poor

## Stressing on cons

In order to be more helpful I'm going to list what I don't like or what I'm missing the most (not in order).

In general, I feel like steemit could learn a lot from reddit from the usability and user experience stand point. Do you agree?

The feature I miss the most is the ability to subscribe to some tags. I see that many others have expressed the same feeling more than a year ago but I don't see the functionality implemented yet. All this looks really weird and I'm pretty sure there is something I'm missing or not understanding.

I also don't enjoy the research delegated to google: it feels patchy, don't you think?

Oh, I just realized that while composing a post there is no markdown support. Seriously? This caught me off-guard, honestly.

Less important but still relevant is the interface: I like the dark theme and its simplicity but I'm pretty sure that someone might prefer a different scheme color. The same goes for the fonts choice: I don't like serif.

Additionally I think that I would like to see who are the trending authors, say, in the last week and month. I'd love to be able to see who are the 10 most rewarded authors.

P.S. I was searxing for "steemit interface is ugly"(sorry no offence meant) and I've found an answer to most of my questions: https://busy.org/