I don't have the means to attend SteemFest so this article was an amazing read. Glad that we have an actual working product to look forward to, in 2020! (Even though I fear with SMT, a massive dump is going to happen.)
Rather than focusing on Mass Adoption I rather focus on making people who are already here stay. So many users left already...
If you ask me, the users who are already here... most of us have an incorrect approach and mindset towards steem, we should strive to change that. Bringing new users with the correct mentality is more important than trying to retain the ones here with a not so positive for the blockchian/coin mentality. Mass adoption is needed, not soon, but short term definitely.