Your last paragraph answers your own arguments. Steemit is cutthroat capitalistic, and it will never change to be any other way. Any hope for a more "socialized" Steemit is played out on deaf ears. Like most things, someone else will have to design something similar to Steemit, but not for personal profit, and released as totally open source. And neither EOS nor SMT are true solutions. So I'm still waiting. In the meantime there's Steemit. ;)