Right on. Thanks for resteeming.
I think having your own site (or at least one that you have some control over) in conjunction with your Steemit blog makes a lot of sense. And since wordpress is open source I think it's a matter of time before someone makes a blog widget that can cross post automatically. That way you could just write on your wordpress and it would post to the steem blockchain.
But even if that never happens, at least you're building a valuable asset in the form of an email subscriber list.