'bot-topia' love it love it love it.
The stats are not good, but there are many people on the ground trying to improve these numbers. The problem is, steemit inc is only supporting devs with smt possibilities and not people trying to help the folk here on Steemit. By doing this to me they are saying the do not believe in steemit.com. Steemit.com as it is now, if not taken care off will not be the front for the steem blockchain for long, Dlive and other apps will be
I sure hope that Steemit cease becoming the front page of the Steem blockchain too though.
I rather the devs behind Steemit.inc focus on more meaningful things and leave the front end to 3rd party companies. Busy or the dozens other platforms.
IMO the only reason people still use steemit is the 0% beneficiary fee and the habit of using this website. I'm sure that will change soon.