That would just be a continuation of the trend; the entire steem ecosystem has been on a downward spiral for years.

People keep repeating this mantra that "steemit is not steem", but when you can't have steemit without steem, and steem has no value without the apps tied to it, they are so intricately connected that it's foolish to separate them unless the distinction is explicitly required.

Ever since I first dipped a toe, the system was rife with scams. Bots given voting power to buy and sell votes, shifting to an up/down vote system so that brigades could demonetize content, low quality posts and spam getting rewarded hundreds of dollars while all the main content creators (with exceptions) would make pennies.

The only platform positive move I've seen was the shift to 'communities' over the much abused 'tagging' system.