How many businesses/projects in the big wide world have died not because the product was bad (in fact the product was great, revolutionary in some cases) but because the marketing...the face presented to the world of buyer, users, investors...the marketing just plain sucked? Or the marketing had a "build it and they will come" notion, which will only work for the moment and when the moment is gone, pfffffft, so goes the business.
Steemit's marketing sucks.
A decentralized world may evolve into a community. Given the greed and laziness of people, it is just as likely to devolve into into every man for himself. Or the herd vote themselves off of the cliff.
How many had great marketing and still failed? There is a lot of confirmation bias in the examples.
Granted the marketing sucks but I don't think it is the right time to blow the marketing load anyway. Not enough people in the marketplace.