The future Steem ecosystem I see is one where the major population is composed of content creators who are also small-time investors, reaping the benefits of platform ownership while also developing a community where we reward each other for quality communication
The above is gradually becoming true with upcoming of some communities that support content creators that are hidden under much bidbots of money mongers trying to kill the platform with their quest to be wealthy without adding some values to the platform.
Used well the bots make it quite a bit easier to move from a whale-centric system to a dolphin-centric one. I'll have more posts on this before too long.