I've tried a lot of the other clones but never wanted to leave steem. I just see so much potential here and can see all of the other projects being build that will give it value in the long run.
There does need to be more external money brought into the system and steem.inc have started to do that which is great. They are also looking to help projects that will burn steem and market externally to bring more eyes onto steem. I wouldn't worry too much about the inflation as it's going down every year and there really isn't that much steem out there if we see a few million dollars thrown at the token. One good smt could get a lot of people interested in the token.