Average person: I want to write, make videos and do my hodgepodge of posts on Steem(it). I want to meet interesting people that I can relate to from reading /watching their posts. I don't want to be put in a nitch and made to stay there.

If I try out a new game, I don't want to spend my hard earned money/Steem to see if I like it. I don't want to feel I need to take a college course in order to feel like I belong on Steem and am heard.

There are MORE average people in the world than not.

The average user, me, if they came here now, would read how dysfunctional Steem is from its own users and leave. Why learn something new when they don't understand about Crypto or know what it is? Here lies the discrepancy.

Steem needs billions of average people to grow. All the wonderful projects being built on top of the Steem Blockchain will slowly go away if they don't start catering to the billions of average users.

Let's look at how Facebook grew into what it is today.

They made it mainstream once average people, the parents of the kids that were already on Facebook, started using it. Facebook became an easy way to keep track of family members. Microblogging one could say.

Facebook, in the next phase, had addicting games that you could play for free. The gaming companies started charging for 'extras'. The extras didn't make or break the game. They made your game look better or saved you time.

Gaming companies, Indie, and Corporate were making millions. Average people like cool looking things and don't have a lot of time.

Facebook saw all the money the gaming companies were making and got greedy wanted their piece of the profits. They started charging the game companies outrageous amounts of money to stay on their site. Many wonderful Indie games left. The companies that stayed had to charge the consumer. The first down tread of Facebook. People started leaving in droves after they received their first credit card bill.

It should be noted that Facebook was preset to make everything you did on their site public knowledge. In order to make your page private, you had to spend more than a few hours reading and learning. Those that cared to, took the time to learn. Those that didn't care, could still use Facebook and shout to the world that they played FarmVille eighteen hours a day.

Facebook didn't care either way. They had millions joining their web site and spending money. Why would you look down at those that are buying you homes that are worth hundreds of millions of dollars? You wouldn't.

The Steemian @Nonameslefttouse wrote a great post about marketing Steem(it) called How Much Have You Spent on Entertainment in Your Lifetime? in response to @berniesanders post Voting on Others Will NOT Save Steem. Nonameslefttouse's post is well worth the read. It will get your brain thinking beyond your front door.

Final thoughts.

The average person is more important than the elite of Steem seems to realize.
Very short-sighted if you ask me, the average user.