@SirKnight,
If your have been reading steemit posts you will be told ad nauseum that:

1. users do not matter
2. quality posts do not matter

what matters seems to be the number of transactions so that the blockchain can prosper and not the community that the blockchain is built upon. now we have several sub-communities that are trying to retain users but their problem is the same as that of Steemit!

i agree with you that a philosophy of "build it and they will come" is wishful thinking. Better for Steemit to have focussed on a single dapp to begin with and make it wildly successful