So far the biggest problem numerically has not been onboarding, it has been retention. We've onboarded probably close to a million users (over a million accounts, but after subtracting the obviously fraudulent ones, the true number is likely below a million but not hugely below). Yet most of those users are gone, having given up long ago. I've personally created accounts manually for several dozen people to help them get around the clunky registration system, yet only a tiny handful (maybe just one or two) of those people is still around.

There are many challenges to address, which of course has both upside (if they are addressed) and downside (if they are not).

As for what is worth people's time, Steem has lost 99% of its (fiat/purchasing-power) value. That's the main reason why anything would not be worth someones time, why development resources to address usability, feature, and retention issues is a huge obstacle, etc. Getting worked up about relatively small reallocations of that massively shrinking total value is a huge distraction from the challenges we face. IMO.