Well... I can only speak for myself @fredrikaa. Yeah, I've considered building up my long abandoned WordPress site, but it would take a whole pile of extra work which I don't have time for right now due to health issues.

So far as others who have left are concerned, all I can say is I have personally spoken to a lot of people who are quality writers who've left steem, many whom stated some of the reasons I highlighted above.

I dunno what to say beyond that. In my opinion, it is a problem that the steep learning curve and crazy levels of networking required to get anywhere on steem drives many people away. Add to that diminishing rewards, and a large proportion of high quality content creators will walk. Right now steem is like an echo chamber of people writing about tribes and steem.

I'm not sure what mass appeal that has, but it wasn't always this way. There used to be a majority of wide ranging, decent quality content on here. Right now people are incentivised to create steem-centric content because that is what whales, devs and a bunch of people who are emotionally invested (myself included) seem to want. But this makes for a very strange site to look at from an outsider's perspective.

Anyway, I've gone on a tangent 🤣