holy mole @simplymike the rambles are good, lol its get it off your chest time.  But seriously I hear ya.  there is a lot of work to do from steemit incs side but I do see a lot of positive changes happening there.  The new MD is @elipowell and she might be interested in reading all of this thread.  @ned might also be interested as you have a lot of experience and skills in this area and well if they don't know where to go to look, pinging them might help.  Some might say they dont read the stuff and they dont care, but I disagree.

I recently removed myself from the politics of steem as it was getting to negative for me, but it wont stop me promoting steem and trying to guide both steemit inc and steem users in the right direction.  I just have to do it in a non political way.  I have a lot of faith in steem and actually in steemit inc too.  But the community are taking control of a lot of stuff and there is nothing stopping you or I trying to show people a different way.   I already feel like I am making ground with this as some people are looking more into what I have been saying in this series of posts. there are just 4995 out of the 5K left to convince :-) 

So sorry I messed up your post today, but the good news is I pulled that data and sent it over to you in DM on discord...now we just gotta convince  community leaders on discord to move their communities to somewhere searchable, discord is not helping steem at all in terms of marketing and growth, but Im also going to keep that rant for a different time.