thanks a lot! Your post was somehow foresaw what ned said in his livestream. Apparently, he said that steem and steemit are different things and that his only job should be the blockchain. In other words it's like blaming the community that we are expecting everyone from him and that steemit will not be a priority.

Therefore as i see it there is no chance for a development of a new interface in the near future so these apps/dapps that you mentioned in your post are our only salvation :P

The hard part is not only to be stable and without issues but to outrank steemit in terms of visibility (alexa rank for example) and thus outsiders see any of these apps first before steemit