Please focus more on fundamentals.
Steem will only succeed as a platform if it produces and discovers the highest quality content.

The current trending tab is a collection of self-promoted posts, upvoted by bots. It's not a collection of the best work, rewarded by the steem community.

I believe this to be an essential problem and hope more effort will be made to improve it.
Once Steem becomes asscociated with 'promoting spam', it'll be too late. :/