I think it's a bit offensive to say that people are lazy for not wanting to spend hours on blogging with absolutely no guarantees. This is especially true when you see whales upvoting garbage and selling their votes.

Steem is very discouraging for MANY reasons. That said, I still believe in it and I think it's really going to take off. I think Steem will go at least 100x in the next five years. The problem is that all you can do here is post blogs.

Steem is creating a insanely high supply of content with very little demand and no filters. The only filter is how much money a post is going to get paid. This is bad. Until Steem devs provide a way for Steemians to get paid for proof-of-brain outside the context of blogging, it will remain a middling blockchain.