Actually I was a bit surprised that you thought I fell in the blockchain group as you described. The areas where I'm suggesting more focus should be spent is on increasing the friendliness to the site to new users (creating updated intro material, etc) and preventing the pain of loss of funds (something that I think is likely in many cases to result a quick exit from the platform for anyone not already committed to cryptocurrency) versus a lot of blockchain level tweaking.

It's my opinion that monetary rewards are not the primary reason people use social media anyways (well, I hope this is pretty obvious statement given the success of facebook/twitter/etc), so while the money is an important draw for Steemit, I believe the most important thing is to make the site a place where people feel welcome. I also like the uncensorability of using a blockchain to power the conversations. I'm really not sure we're are so far apart in our goals for the platform, except that it sounds like you would like to wait longer before bringing new people to the platform (i.e. when it's more polished).