Great post! - earned my follow
I agree with your assessment, although one comment:
I'd be interested to hear the rationale behind the selection/creation of certain categories over others. For example, if a user wanted to post about #life (which aside from #steemit is probably the largest category on Steemit.com) there is not an obvious place to do that.
This is very important, even here on steemit. Nurturing separate communities that are isolated from each other is very important for long term relevance. See: Reddit.
Good point, my thoughts were that as an early product it might be better to start broader and then focus in on specific topics as segments develop organically. Chicken or the egg I guess, but even Reddit has more general subreddits for random discoveries or posts.
Yeah, it is simply the separation out into communities that is needed - as aposed to the spew of posts that is steem now.