I have been on and off with Steemit for 2 years almost to the day. I have seen this platform boom and bust, grow and contract, and I still haven't begun to figure it all out. I, too, am in it for the long run. I just do my thing here and let it all build up. Maybe some day it will reward me greatly. There's also the possibility that it will become monopoly money and a relic of a once great experiment. Who knows?
I have not spend a dime of my own money so I have no business complaining about anything that happens here. I do find the politics a bit annoying and I hate seeing great content going unnoticed while garbage posts get ranked. But, hey....it's all a part of the grand experiment.
I'm just happy to say that I was among the first to get here and a pioneer to a new social construct that built the new era of the crypto revolution!
That's priceless!