Brilliant ! You hit the nail on the head with this one - well done ! You should definitely keep producing content as you are one of the better vlogers here. Also I respect people, who have the balls to challenge the status quo. Nice !
To be honest 6-7 people have signed up on my recommendation on this platform and NONE, I mean NONE of them uses it. The main reason being - people just self-serve themselves, the trending page is another thing. JERRY BANFIEL promoting his bot and his event getting 2000$ in rewards... WHAT ?! Haejin getting 5 spots on the list, some guy with totally copy/pasted content upvoted himself to trending. What the hell, why would someone bust his ass off, if you can make plenty of $ elsewhere.
People are leaving and I think it will only get worse if we don't do anything about it - on the end there will be 1M "Active Users " - The 1% that is doing extremely well, the 5% that is doing descent, the 10% that make something on the side, the 50% Bot Farmers, who upvote their photos with 100SBD, the 24% that are slowly realizing what's going on and the 10% that thinks it all can be great if little changes are implemented.
I guess we will see.... Steemit is like a badly governed country. The thing is that there is nowhere else to go FOR NOW ! If they don't fix it themselves, someone else will fix it for them :)