Well fanboy, let me start with this is a great blockchain and steem has a lot of potential future uses way beyond a speculative asset/tool. It has it's moments and growing pains but Rome wasn't built in a day...no pain no gain...I can keep going.
One thing is amazing is the cooperation from a large group of individuals from all walks of life and various talents that mostly never met to keep this project alive during the hard times and that says a lot right there about it's future devs, writers, artists and curators alike. We may be slim at the moment but this is just the beginning of an incredible long term project. As long as enough of us believe and keep our eyes on the prize and move forward, this place will continue to flourish.
Frankly, I'm a computer dumbass and even I learned easily the basics so anyone can do it. Most of what I know from blockchain is because of steem and steemit.