Only joined late December last year, but compared to the rest who still has to come, I am still an early adopter. Still pity myself that I didn't jump on the wagon sooner.
Yes, there are problems and yes we all like a beautiful decent working interface! And yes, I do hope that they are constructing or reconstructing everything under the hood, to make it future compliant! But I don't see why an app with 5 million user want to join the steem ecosystem if they do see how slow the signup process is.
At the moment it takes around 6 days to get an account approved! If they are not able to tackle this problem before the SMTs are rolled out, it will hurt the blockchain, ecosystem and more important the trust!

The biggest problem I do have with all of this, is that I can't get a clear picture where they are working on. I would like to see some more communication from @ned, @dan or @steemitblog.
Not only on the technical side, but also on the future plans.
But for the moment I will trust them, and believe that they will tackle the issues which needs to most attention and which will add the most value to the blockchain.
Cheers,
Peter