I think the expectations were too high, it was not the miracle that people were expecting it to be ...
I don't mind it exists, in fact it's a good thing, but the total effect of it is minuscule at this point ... it didn't really change much ... posts counts are still going down, $SBD is still going down etc etc ...
I think that's why cryptos is somewhat frustrated ... it's not just about his posts or the promote button itself, it's that there's something fundamentally wrong at this stage of the game and the promote button didn't solve it ... that's the issue
The biggest problem right now, even if I have 0.01$ worth of vote, is that I don't see much good content to upvote.
Now imagine that the platform can give out thousands of dollar per day - perhaps 20-30k. We have to ask ourselves if there are 200-300 posts that can really earn those 100$ each...