Yeah, I've had similar thoughts, but I actually think the instagramization of social media is kind of unavoidable unless Steemit.com wanted to institute a minimum word count for a post to appear. Maybe someday soon someone will create a steem interface that segments post types into categories (somehow figuring out how to automate this). Would be interesting to see how many would fit into the general shitpost category.

One thing I will say is that for some reason when I post to APPICS I tend to push myself to post higher quality photos because I want to raise the bar. So there's that.