Nice article and I have had the same feelings sometimes about trying to onboard my friends.

Steem is more than a blogging site, I have always said this and why I think people get confused about this.. "I thought this was about blogging...". With the tribes created via Steem engine, tribe owners can play around with the levers of policy, economics and enforcement etc at will. From my understanding with communities. Once you set all the protocols, they are set in stone. Unless you get witness consensus to incorporate changes at a HF.

On certain SCOT tribes one can get totally muted from the tribe. Even to the point if they vote with their stake. It is blocked. Extreme I know, but each tribe is it's own community in which they decide their own rules. They even respond collectively in certain issues.

Best part of tribes/communities will be the exponential growth in projects running on top of Steem. Steem will become the utility.

Tell some your friends, invest a couple of hundred bucks on a punt, it could go south but it returns like 15% or so a year interest in Steem with curating. What does your bank give?

Tell some friends you can tokenize pretty much anything and if you have a business that could be fun.

Tell some friends there a few games in which you own the digital gaming assets. Ones you can trade, swap with anyone, anywhere, anytime on Steem.

Every week there seem to be another aspect of the chain that comes to life. Each attracting a different set of users.

Your friends and more will be back eventually.