Oh boy, where do i start.
"However, there is nothing keeping this from fading at this point, just slowly and painfully. And this is not what anyone wants to happen!"
This is at least level 2 on the contradiction scale.

'Steem only has speculative value. That's it! Without speculative value and a strong supply/demand market, the community will not survive, your STEEM will be worthless."
According to economics I can say this exact quote about (instert anything here).
"However, 99.9999% of the world doesn't give two shits!"
Highly assumptive are we?

"These excuses are hurting the value of any STEEM you have or will have."
Should I lol or lmao, your choice.

"I'm not too proud or disillusioned to admit that she's right!"
Your girlfriend is right. Right!!! (s/)

"Every new account created on Steemit should be required to choose (say) 5 different tags/topics. From those topics, their home feed would be automatically populated with posts related to just those topics. That's it."

Do you know what decentralized mean? 

I could go on but it looks like the sheeple are voting you up ( i did as well).