If developers would be given tokens, which in return strengthen the ecosystem and increase the value of Steem, then this would be a positive return, instead of rewards being sold by cat-sharing bloggers (extreme example).
I'm a bit confused. This is exactly what I was suggesting. Perhaps you are agreeing?
I don't think it's worse to give rewards to stakeholders instead of people who have no stake, post subjective content which is often times of no real value and then sell
Nobody wants that except maybe the people posting the cat pictures. But as I said less and less of it is even going to that, at the cost also not going to developers.
Yes, you're right. We agree on it! :)
That's sadly true - not that many developers are on Steem, but I've got faith in utopian v2 bringing more devs to Steem to help shift the weight.