Where influencers and "known" people was rewarded a shit ton of money (tokens) for whatever crap they shared, just due to the simple fact that they had an audience outside of the platform. It didn't work back then and it won't work now, so I hope people will think twice this time.

I agree. I will say though that LeoFinance does have one big advantage over Steem from years ago. The onboarding is far superior both in ease of use and in speed of account opening. I'm not saying that the same thing won't happen to LeoFinance that happened to Steem but at least this time we don't have one arm tied behind our backs.