It really is meant to be small steps in the right direction. If it was meant to be easy as hell and make everyone rich, it wouldn't be real.
A couple years ago, a team of us dove into crypto with the objective of learning all we could, and amassing 1000 of each token. Now, some are easier to earn than others but I have passively authored, searched, bought, traded and otherwise earned my way in that direction.
This is doing thing I either normally would have done (presearch) or spent time doing for token and many other benefits (STEEM/Hive).
Seems like such a slow start to all this seeing as we have been early adopters for years but there will be an accelleration point as we approach early majority adoption. The slower it happens, the longer it can last so I am cool with it!
Good insight man.