Extremely resteemworthy. You make a lot of valid points that I've never really seen put in so many words. Since it's past seven days, no point wasting my measly little minnowvote but, yeah, more people definitely need to see this.
Especially the parts about notifications (yes, we really do need to be able to customize what notifications we get) and thumbnail of the profile pics (Steemit is already so image-heavy anyway! Why make our profile pics so tiny?)