Let me, without invitation, expand on my thoughts. haha. We are just very early in the game. We are so early that we find ourselves on a content creation platform where the large majority of users that are extremely highly rewarded for their content are godawful based on any parameter you can think of. lol I know who those people are, you know who they are. So i wont mention them... Mostly because its social suicide, thus proving my initial point through a personal example. haha

I cant really blame the community though, it is as it is, and while i do think it will change over time as we grow, its still important to point out those things.
Most of the issues stem from bad distribution and over-reliance on a small number of SP holders. Im in the top 3000 biggest accounts on STEEM. My upvote is worth 10 cents which is nothing... Now consider that there are maybe a handful of accounts that can give you something that is worth your time investment in STEEM...
What happens is pretty obvious. Folks adjust to expectations and youre left with a bunch of conformists and favor chasers... Since steem uses the "marine" parallel for its account sizes id go with this representation..