It's what needed to be said and amongst there's legitmacy if Steemit will ever be a real social network because of the money issue. I believe Steemit needs a hard fork or reboot in which a lot of the problems can get ironed out.
There's still no real algorthms and only those that throw money into steem power or bots get noticed vs geninuine real content. There needs to be an organic flow based on people's interests not the crap on trending by the 1%.
That said, good post and walk your own path and content. Use Steemit as a means to drive traffic and benefit you.
Currently most of the trending post invest around 160-250 sbd to remain at the top.