I too agree with your post, and the tone of it.
I'm a developer, I haven't done a pull request because 'm working full time already, with multiple other projects that I'm doing for free, so I don't have the time to write quality code.

And trust me when I say that a concept like Steemit needs quality code if it is to survive.

I have no doubt that the dev team are killing themselves getting things done. In any web app the UI is only a very small part of the equation. But for Steemit that small part is even way smaller. there is just so much other code that needs to be written, tested, debugged, rewritten because the requirements change, or the environment changes etc.

And it is very easy for a user to say 'Just give me one of those. But not green like that. I want rainbow colours' By Monday. And when you tell them that will take a while, they look at you in confusion, and say 'But other websites have rainbows. My 14 year old nephew could make it with rainbow colours in about an hour.'

They don't see that the other sites with rainbow colours took months to develop their site.

To those complaining about the lack of progress, I say, take some screenshots of the site as it is now. store them away for 6 months. then in six months take them out and compare them to the site that is not progressing fast enough, and you'll be surprised just how much it has changed.

As for the price of Steem, it's a currency , a young currency being freely traded. f yo want the price to go up, do stuff that add value to it so people will buy it. Call your friends and neighbours and get them excited about Steem.

If you want more from your Steem, and from Steemit PUT MORE IN!
Nuf said.