You made some really good points there. I agree that Steemit currently is far from ready for mass adoption, but the community feature has the potential to make some huge improvements to the usability of Steem.

With SMTs, there will be multiple photography platforms launching on the Steem Blockchain, but they will be separate from Steemit and the Steem currency. This has a lot of potential, but could also lead to the small photography community splitting into different platforms..