You are right. on one hand there's the changes implemented in the new fork and on the other hand is the people who's votes matter most are not that active. Is it because they can't see the trees (good posts) from the forest (a huge amount of new posts on the New page?
I wonder if maybe some new content categories split by content would actually make it easier for the so called whales to discover and vote on the content they are interested in.
I know you can go by tags but still it might be nice to have like sub-steemit sections with a Meme section, A twitter-ish section for few words posts..etc.
I agree there should be sub categories. An option to filter out topics (like memes for example) would also be great.