Very sad, especially as there are still some great people who decided to continue writing (or even stay completely) on STEEM.
However, the current conditions which for example allow the biggest spammer ever, @haejin, to milk the system again and prevent great posters like you to do their job, don't look good at all (to express it euphemistically).
I really hope that HIVE will do better, but to reach more people and make the network grow it is absolutely necessary to see other topics than only blockchain, programming, crypto or HIVE related stuff on trending!!!
Very good points as always. I think your "the situation doesn´t look good at all" is very euphemistic indeed. From my perspective, Steem is currently nothing but one giant blockchain cesspool that represents the exact opposites of what a healthy decentralized blockchain with a good and loyal userbase should stand for.
I fully agree with you on the Hive trending page. Actually, this is exactly what I wrote about in this post.
In theory STEEM would have the chance gain shares of the Asian market, especially as many Asian people don't care a lot about decentralization and blockchain, but instead of that just want to communicate with friends, combined with the option to earn some money. However, currently Justin Sun is executing measures which could be too much even for this kind of target audience ... we will have to wait and see ...
Yes, he is basically creating a strongly centralized and controlled environment there that only his loyal friends and fans can enjoy...