I'm not sure the price has a reason, but if it did it might be because this place is still mostly full of posts saying how awesome steemit is and very few posts that display any evidence of the promise of censorship resistance. Until/unless there is some serious effort to encourage controversial/illegal topics, Steem is just another place to shit post. As such I am still firmly in the "Steemit is a pile of shit" camp. Hope for better results in my next 6 monthly revue https://steemit.com/steemit/@jeza/bi-yearly-steemit-review

PS you're the first post I've upvoted in 6 months because you actually made some effort to be critical