My opinion: 

What we should be looking for is the Wisdom of the crowd.

Each user votes on what they subjectively like...

Ignores what they don't like and downvotes what they think is harmful.

It's okay that some like to write about Steem and some like photography and stories.

What we have always struggled with in my opinion is the lack of distribution and an inability or unwillingness to create demand.  So, you wind up with a lot of power in a few people's hands.  We do this over and over again.  :)

Currently as a result of a pushed ideal of Curation is a few people with large amounts of stake under their control deciding what is good and bad.

It's a DPOS based system and we have had a very difficult time trying to break out of how much influence is in a few hands. 

It gets reorganized from time to time, but a lack of true consensus is always there.

In the end though it accurately reflects what the stakeholders value and I think that is fair.  Others just have to decide if it is "Good Enough" as a young product.