I was voicing the same concerns. I hoped I was wrong, but don't see any indicators at all that I was. HF21 will drive away all remaining decent original content. Other sites are rewarding authors and Steemit is doing the opposite, rewarding voting bots so people DON'T have to interact with the social media platform. Hint: that is what a social media platform is for, for people to interact.

I think we are done. Most of the authors I knew have moved on. I am spending a lot more time on Uptrennd (where authors are actually rewarded and encouraged and bots are NOT ALLOWED).