Please tell me this is not news to you.
I never said it was.
And it makes it even worse, because users with power - like yourself - have accepted this sorry state of affairs and its been languishing this long.
So why is Steemit going to succeed? Is it to train a new generation of bots to monetize and comment on each other's posts?
Because that's the only use-case I see with the current system.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.