In my opinion inflation is not an problem looks coins like xrp which has open supply of 100 billion but only 42 is open for market at this time and if they want they can open all 100 billion but is that fears people answer is no it is at 3rd in market. And also look at stellar recently it has cut 50billion from its supply but it doesn’t make any growth.
So inflation is not problem. What we need is more effective promoting to other platforms. Steem needs an great PR team and an special budget for that