Hive account@conradsuperb, well said! I have seen a lot of hype in this community about steemit replacing Facebook or steemit replacing Twitter. This will not happen with the current governance. Steemit is far too difficult to master for this to happen. Perhaps if there is more awareness of the value proposition, compared to the massive effort required to learn the platform and its numerous unstated rules, this could motivate switching, but right now that's unfortunately just a pipe dream.

Like you, I am speaking from a place of love for the platform. The current curation rules are skewed toward the whales. Paying the bots to play is an unfortunate fact of life here. I don't have the answer, but I have faith in the community that we will find a way to make the rewards commensurate with the quality of the content, as voted by the community in a fair manner.