I think you are absolutely right! I don´t agree that people are lazy though. People with jobs are lazy,they have been doing too much already.
And I did read the whole article.
Quite often I don´t though,because I´m tired, and I´m upvoting stuff from my feed, I just read to get the gist of it,unless it´s really good.
So, yes image based stuff would be great,and I would be using both sites.
Investments into steemitt would skyrocket if this succeded,and we would all gain from it.