Do you feel that steering has been helping?

I would say yes to some degree, but there's so many things colliding it's only a small slice of it to be honest. I'm not just talking abuse either, it's all the egotistic people wanting different things from how the chain is run, to what direction it should take etc. There are good people too obviously, but a lot of those ideas get lost in the spam or just flat out ignored.

It's also about what is developed to be used on the chain, if there's nothing worth using then why would anyone bother coming. We can't just have 50 catch all condenser style websites, there need to be specific topics or uses for them.

Then there's the promise of SMTs and communities which has dragged on years now, will it ever get done?

Anyway I hope even removing some spam and abuse really is making even a slight dent in all of this. 😀