I have never heard of this guy before, but I know the industry and problems/challenges well. The issue of post discovery is the main issue here I feel - and this brings up the additional symptom of low user retention as a consequence. If there aren't many users to curate the best content or if they aren't motivated to do it, then the default design of steemit.com fails - resulting in loss of the mechanism of 'proof of brain'.

In short, we absolutely need websites that take post discovery seriously by means of design features that help us find new/hot posts more effectively. We also really need some changes to the Steem blockchain to make curation more attractive. The use of bid bots also causes serious problems with post discovery, since the best posts are drowned out in a sea of noise.

I highly suggest all to read my recent concept for totally stopping the problem with bid bots on steem.