Wow this crosses so many of the feelings I have had with Steemit since joining a couple months ago. Your grumpy cat story really exemplifies why I've had a hard time gaining traction here both in terms of the content I produce and actually wanting to continue.

I would say in the roughly 2 months I have been here I put in a really solid first month trying as hard as I could. Then some personal issues and depression took me out of the game for a week or so. But in the time since I have had a hard time wanting to put in the same level of work as when I first started.

That said, I have seen an uptick in a lot of interesting and quality content and people trying new things including groups, contests, trying to make niche content pop etc. So I'm really excited about that, and posts like yours. And I'm definitely going to give it some more time and specifically try an experiment with posting my first journalistic (rather than more personal) article here soon. But I'm still not 100% convinced I'll stick around for the long haul. We'll see.