It's definitely one of the drawbacks that I'm seeing. The verification process should require a bit more thorough of a vetting to prevent the overwhelming amount of bad content on this site. To find the good content, you have to sort through the dregs.

As a new steemian myself, the challenge is building a following who will be guaranteed to see your content as you produce it. I'm in the process of doing that now.

Anyways, good read, you've got good points. Hope you figure it out! Mako