There will be no platform that new users have equal footing.
Success on social media is extremely difficult as it is ultra-competitive, Steem not as much due to the lack of active users. It is extremely hard to get noticed even on Steem with the handful of users we have that is the case. If we had 1M+ users it would be considerably more difficult and curation guilds would strive.
When you add money into it, it becomes more of a good old boys club and it is unavoidable as people tend to vote for people not content.