The inflation was one of those things that really scared me when first joining Steemit learning how everything works nearly 2 years back. When looking at the actual numbers, the reward pool is fairly reasonable though.

In a couple of years from now, many will likely look back at this period and how easy it actually was to build something up. I remember when Steem was around 1$-3$ thinking how lucky everyone here was during the days the price was at ~0.1$ at a much higher inflation rate.

Thanks for making the calculations providing the numbers