Excellent response. This, in particular, stands out as the gold to me:

Mainstream doesn't want unfiltered and uncut. They want to block people that they don't want to see their profile. They want to be able to get justice for those that do wrong. They want to feel a sense of fairness.

STEEM, in it's current form, is not appealing to every day users, or big investors that are paying attention to the abuse happening. Some people like to throw around that investors would want that. But a smart investor, would realize that any system that is allowed to be gamed like that, will soon have a distasteful and hateful populace when they all realize the system is ultimately rigged against them.

Re: unless things change...

Undoubtedly, change is an inevitable - and it seems there are matters being addressed, bit by bit, with each hard fork. Though as to whether drastic enough changes can be made to counter these types of larger challenges... I dunno. I think that would take a degree of leadership and governance that I haven’t seen here since the platform started, and the conditions of what was set into place as the foundation may not be conducive towards. I’d like to be wrong on that.