You make a lot of sense. I've noticed that we creators of original content are shunned at best, flagged for 'making too much' at worst by those with all the power, with the few that support our efforts taking flak for it to boot.
I've been writing off steemit for a few months now and my creativity is increasing. Another added benefit (I think) is that I'm looking at other directions and other avenues - www.minds.com is one such avenue.
You can find my first three posts over There. The voting is slightly different - not weighted by the amount of tokens one account holds, so it really is one man, one vote.
You never know, we may be able to make a sustainable community elsewhere.
If you do go to minds.com, look me up, I'm exceptionally new there, so it really is follow for follow, especially with regards to people I respect - like you :)