Steem is diversifying in its business without any "new" features.

We have seen many things happen, before we saw any SMTs see the light of day on Github.

So Steem has a lot more potential than what anyone ever realistically could have thought.

Not to mention the sidechains, no matter what anyone may think of the existing ones, the fact is that it works.
Again, proven in practice. Something that many other endeavours out there will never be able to handle.

We long ago beat the hell out of Visa as far as daily transactions go.
That is old news! Yet still very relevant, even if we don't brag about it nowhere near as much as we should!

It is all there, the pieces of the puzzle are al slowly but surely being arranged and very slowly & still somewhat un+surely being put into place.