I always found that the barrier to entry for a new user was too steep. Many content creators may have heard of bitcoin, but don't have a working understanding of crypto. Then as a new steem user they have to juggle Posting, Active, Owner, Memo (public, private) keys. It may be a little too much for a 60+ year old baking content creator (for example) or just anyone who is used to simply shooting their content and uploading to youtube.

In addition when reading steemit posts on a desktop, the content is centered while there are large gaps on both sides. Perhaps its just my widescreen monitor, if it isn't perhaps something can be done with this unused screen real esate. Just my two cents, over all I think platforms such as steemit are the future especially when big companies are censoring and filtering their content to be ad-friendly.