if you're a big enough stake holder, that is incentive enough. Also the reputation earned from building such apps is theoretically priceless in the future going forward. Plus this is a tipping platform plus the proposal system etc... it's all geared toward making products with the most benefit to everyone.
Yep, exactly, which is why it has been so surprising to me that it has been such a struggle to get something remotely popular built on here. I get that no other blockchains have really great apps built on them either, so there is that, but in theory steem should be in better position than most and it has been that way for years now... with very little results.
Trust me, my mind is also blown. When I consider that I could be the first one in the world to build the prototype of an entire decentralized genre it really has me questioning my own sanity.
How has nobody done these things yet? I think it's really a testament to just how early in the game we really are and how hardwired our brains are to think in the opposite manner than is required. We're all wired to think in terms of scarcity over abundance instead of the other way around.