Thank you for noticing the same things as I as of late have been seeing. One thing about it, people are so dilluted when it comes to entertainment. They know the potential of what steemit offers and they love the freedom and the community. The hard part is this. With so much content being put into the system, without either standing out or people not intentionally clicking on you on their friends list, you get lost in the mix. They see something that you write and then it's like you disappear off their screen, and you do in reality to make room for new content.
I am happy to be here on steem and I was in fairly early. I could have worked harder as I'm sure everyone could. It becomes so big of a part of your life that it owns you. If one were to "do it right", it takes so much of your time up because you are interacting with people, commenting, actually putting content up that you have to take a break from it so you can actually live your life on the side of it. There is no balance when you actually boil it down unless you make a balance. Then people judge you by the effort you put into it, and if they don't think you put enough time in then you aren't worthy anymore.
Depending on how serious you want to get is how much you will get out of it. Just share what is around you, comment on what interests you and make some connections. I think we're missing the point with steemit. We're complicating this platform. Just put something up. This is the new "book" or your platform to let people put their experience on the blockchain.
Never before can the common man share and have it be seen by anyone. It can't be tampered with and you can't get rid of it. You can't burn these records now can ya?
So I'm going to wnd with this. Don't worry about how many people read these posts now. They are here to be read for ever. If you think about generations down the road, this is your legacy. So the 
RE: Has the steemit community changed lately?