Showing up for anything is half the battle, life happens. I get overwhelmed by large tasks, I found breaking it down into smaller steps help get things flowing. I my not have the ambition to write every day but I still show up and up-vote, I might read something that strike inspiration somewhere. As long as we all show up in our own way and interact somehow, steemit has a chance. Like you said our success or failures here is based on showing up and putting forth the effort or not.

I noticed I get much more engagement on steemit from folks I never met than I do on facebook with people that know me in real life. This platform is still pretty interactive for a small regular user base it just needs to be more user friendly to attract everyone's gramma.