Training wheels or alternate reality?

Image credit: http://kolossos.org/art-bikes/orca-whale/

Some bservations and questions about SteemIt:

1. After working hard to grow from minnow to dolphin to whale, what's next?
2. Would you rather be a SteemIt whale or a paid journalist like Laura Chin at Forbes?
3. Is SteemIt like a GitHub of blogging (or what we used to call journalism) ?

In no way do I mean this to be demeaning of people's hard work on SteemIt, but I just sense that sometimes people might be losing sight of the bigger picture.