I’ve seen so many interesting posts on steemit, about philosophy, life, mathematics, music, art, people who actively promote steemit and they did not get proper attention.

This is sadly true...
I was very excited about steemit in the beginning and have been helping people on instagram to sign up and get started for a month now. Yet when I posted about it I got some votes: https://steemit.com/steemit/@getssidetracked/the-steemit-community-on-instagram-is-growing
Don't get me wrong, but 100 users manually helped get on steemit later and 620 comments in a month, it feels like dust compared to the 15k facebook page about steemit post or all "famous" celebrities now popping by and instantly growing past you in steempower.

1 month of work and dollarvigilante now has 20x more SP than me in not even a week. This also from someone who probably could buy 50x more and investing without flinching, yet people keep voting on his clickbait-facebook-level titles and posts.

I decided to power down on contribution. I bought 200 Steem myself a month ago and have earned maybe 200 from posts from which most was from one "whale" alone. But the time and users I got here haven't really been worth it compared to others. And I know many are in my situation, seeing already popular people get more popular, and now with the feeds working I unfortunately don't have the power or time to tey and promote myself again as much as I did in the beginning, which ended up being almost for nothing and I'm scared same would happen again and I would have wasted more time.

All this doesn't change my view on steemit the slightest, I still have high hopes for it and think my investment was well worth it. Just the investment in time wasn't as much.

One thing I hate more than anything else tho, what I've noticed happens often here. Is greed. A lot of users the site has helped to not be as greedy by voting - but those who already are stacked and go around saving them votes for maximized curation rewards in self-interest, never upvote people in their own posts comment-sections, and to top it all off only upvote their own posts while maintaining 99%+ voting power... you disgust me.