Guess I'm too new to understand all this, but seems that I am beginning to grab it. The community seems to be less inspired than it was a few months ago. It would be a bit of a blemish for the creators to let steem decay, but maybe something is so fundamentally not perfect that they can not do much about it without a "revolution" that the community won't allow to happen. Maybe like in Ethereum that wants all the best but shifting to POS, yet has a huge heap of shit to go through before making any real change; and that heap might even be insurmountable in actuality - only time will show.
Not too reassuring :)