How are we ever going to make this place any better?
By presenting better usage of this place, and not just earning potential. Right now, writing blogs and earning is probably the major usage, but its getting better with more gaming apps, short form contents coming on the chain. So some spontaneous use cases would help attract more people and retain them in the longer run.
I do believe at some point in time, users will live in silos of a kind. Most people won't even know about blogging, although there will still be thousands of us over here talking to each other.
Hey, it might be that "our win" is becoming a highway of sorts for commerce. VSC could do that. And, we are just a colony of birds that lives in the same forest.