You’re still not getting it and you’re arguing some points that I never made. I would encourage you to actually read the posts I linked earlier today. Most of your questions/claims have already been answered/addressed for the past two years.
To this point specifically:
Authors are not coming here, and Steem won't increase in price unless many do.
This has been repeatedly demonstrated to be completely backwards. Prices do not increase because users/authors increase. The influx of new users comes after prices rise and then they leave as prices fall.
Why does that happen? Because all of those precious “valuable” authors only come to extract value from the system, then abandon the system at the first sign of decreasing rewards. Meanwhile, the invested users, whose investment and voting habits gave those authors their profits, are left with another few thousand abandoned accounts and people whining about how unfair everything is...again.
So, no - authors who come after the price spikes don’t really do much of anything for the platform. If they stick around and keep their stake in the system, then that’s a different story. But then we’re talking about new stakeholders who are incentivized to power up (or stay powered up) and curate, not just authors who dump tokens.
And then we’re back to the same issue: Incentivizing non-bloggers to power up and contribute to the system so that it properly functions, which is the entire purpose of curation rewards. And again, this was addressed and discussed in the linked posts and the plenty of comments on them.
One last thing:
No top witnesses are making $8K per month right now. That would mean that they are earning over 26,000 STEEM each. Check current prices and earned witness rewards.
Good job conflating creation of value with marketing of Steem. Authors come here because they hear about Steem from price increases. They leave for reasons. Price decreases.
As to every other point I made that you ignore, well...
Apparently you can't into $=Steem.