The beauty of Steem is that after Steemit, Inc has rolled out SMT's and all the scalability updates the success of the platform will no longer be in their hands. It will be up to thousands of yet unknown people some of whom will develop those apps that will draw in the consuming masses willing to pay to use the apps. That is the real value proposition of Steem and not what goes down on this primitive blogging platform. All the stupid fighting over Trending and bidbots will be history by then.