Yeah that's also one of my big arguments why I like steem so much.

You can start from nothing.
And learn so much stuff on your way up..

In other projects you mostly have to buy in. And the biases in the community may be stronger.
At least it seems so to me.

People also keep forgetting that there is no real fight between blockchain projects.
They are more likely to work together and improve each other on the way to a great ecosystem.