Interesting stuff. I didn’t read all of the comments so I may be repeating what others have written.

Aside from being punished by Cheetah et al, the bloggers may be punished by Google et al for having duplicate content. If they SEO their blogs (and Wordpress is great for SEO), this will hurt unless all content has a cite tags around it.

The biggest impediment to spreading Steem is the one week delay to get an account. Most people can accept an email or text verification. Steem requires both which is fine. The problem is then waiting a week!

Why is that important? The best way to spread Steem would be to allow content (text, images and video) and comments to be written onto the blockchain rewards to be awarded on other sites and apps. That happens on Dtube and others but these sites are only for Steemians because you have to work to be one.