A lot of assumptions that kinda sound good... but this one you lost me on. Because in the end it was just... well I don't get it.

You're basically saying poor little steemit inc they're so bad at running a business and designing an interface LET'S ALL GIVE THEM SOME PITY CLICKS.

They're not the best way to experience steem not even 2nd or 3rd best. But they've made a pretty dang good Blockchain over the years. Their interface is something you guys are all used to so you don't see it... but it is a very negative experience for new users. Please don't send them there. Try to remember a long time ago when you started this steem experience and how confusing it was to you. Maybe you don't remember anymore.

A/B test this thing send some of your friends to steemit.com (probably the friends you don't like) and then send your friends to another interface and see which one is less confused about life afterwards. Do some science instead of this semi-emotional plea that is basically telling "while i use steempeak because it's better the rest of you should go to steemit.com and click on some ads so that they stop powering down and hurting the price of my 100k+ steem... thanks guys" See how disingenuous that sounds. And you're usually the voice of reason. Hmmm

This ecosystem will grow if the price of steem grows, I understand that. However we should work to free ourselves from this. Make cool stuff that is independent from the grasp of the price of steem. It's possible. No programmer right now should be doing a project that has dependencies on the price of steem. Meaning they shouldn't be counting on rewards pool for money and they shouldn't be doing a project that counts on promoting steem to their users as a way to get money.

Her'es my plea don't tell new users that they're here to make tons of money. We should be marketing the other awesome things steem provides that they can't find elsewhere.

Really I don't get why you wrote this post. It's basically "Matt's Charity plea to help Steemit INC"
If we're being honest Steemit has actually started to turn things around all by their lonesome, at least in certain areas.
And maybe it was the ass-kicking they have been getting by upset users or the total thrashing by all the interfaces that are MILES better than their still very very sad interface. They aren't good at user experience. They have more full time employees than almost all the other steem projects put together.

Maybe you had some other points that were nice but overall i'm a hard pass on this post. There are just as many reasons to tell people to NOT use steemit.com as you think there are to tell them to go there.