@jongolson, In my opinion, there is an very humanistic answer for Why Engagement Is Important? And that is, No harvest on Empty land. For example, many are putting lot of efforts to get on board more and more users, but are they ready for this new land or we can say new planet. Centralised platforms are consuming just time, but Steem needs both time and energy and energy because, here everyone or many wants to build something, something which is long term, that's why we call our blogs Product/Niche and not just a post.

At this point of time this whole Economy (Not only Steem), is covered with Unclarity but in my opinion sometimes we have to experience the unknown to bring out the known from unknown.

Why we are lacking engagement?

Without any doubt i can say that there are not many Active users and in my opinion we cannot consider the active user data numbers when it comes to organic human engagement because without human engagement matrix can can count under active users like BOTS. And next point is, most of the content one or other way surrounds Steem, means lack of diversified content, when particular individual go through with particular topic over and over they will exhaust. Dapps are there and they are putting there efforts but when it comes to direction, in my opinion we need to give more time because we are on the clear path but weather is unclear.

What is it? How things work? Expectation vs Reality? Right channel of implementation? are questions which are basic but base is foundation. And the biggest challenge is, when it comes to Crypto it is surrounded with lot of hype and whoever will join Steem Blockchain they will hold lot of expectation, so education is very important to spread the light on the subject that, it's not what our brain is cooking, here we have to put lot sometimes to push through from less. But i believe that this is Revolutionary and universe opened the new path for humanity and sometimes we have look into universal way too because what is in physical, at first it exists in spiritual form.

@nathanmars, All inputs are appreciated brother and most importantly, the base, every engagement should happen within Steem Blockchain.

Stay Blessed all. 🙂