My personal take on the people outside of steem who clutched their pearls and wrung their hands at the super high inflation rate was that they didnt like the idea of steem/steemit for a variety of reasons, and were hanging their hat on the inflation rate because inflation is sort of a weird crypto/btc fetish. (i once had a big BTC enthusiast earnestly tell me that BTC was better than gold as an investment, because the number of BTC that could be created was fixed, while new gold would be created forever inside of stars in space)
Which is to say, i don't believe that there are a significant number of people out there for whom the rate of inflation is the one singular thing thats keeping them away. I could be wrong though(i think the whole "inflation" issue is nonsense from top to bottom)...