I don't know downplaying steemit.com is as reasonable as it is. I mean most of the Steem Inc. costs derive from the website traffic, as well as redundancy and I am not sure how many developes were devoted to mantaining the site, but I am sure at least 1 full developer was from the potential 100 people staff it was said they were at one time.

Maybe it was never meant to come out of betta, but that doesnt mean to get in the way of many of the contributions from the people that wanted to have a better UX with steemit. Like it or not, steemit.com is what people first see when dealing with steem.

But leaving Steemit.com aside, steem blockchain itself didnt really change much in this 3 year process. The accounts and economic model wasn't very revolutionary specially after @dan left.

Sorry for being too negative but this was not a new feeling, I was always suspicious about what are they doing with a fully funded, fully staffed company that didn't seemed to move as much as I though they would. And just like many of the VC people and people from the industry says, giving millions of dollars to a new company is a sure way to kill it. I think this was the case with Steemit.