I can only speak from my experience: Two months ago or so I joined and wrote a couple of posts, and put a lot of work into them.
None of them picked up, and in the mean time a lot of (very frankly) poor quality content was trending day after day.
I'm currently giving this outlet a second try, but it doesn't seem like it will be any better the second time around.
RE: Why Steemit post/replies per day is decreasing [My own case + Global Analysis]