That's exactly the point. A premium blockchain with these high prices for simple transactions would need to show clearly that it deserves the "premium" tag. Why should dApp developers not prefer one of the other blockchains, that are as fast and cheaper to run their dApps on? This is not a selling point, but a big challenge. And in the meantime I think, that Steem is actually much less than Steemit. The Steemit dApp is at the moment the only working blockchain social media, while the Steem blockchain has many competitors, where SMTs are already a reality. Talk to real developers out there - most choose Tron or EOS for a reason - or many reasons (especially the tokenization that already works there).