Its a very good thing people are coming to a realization of what SMTs could do for Steem.
The ERC20 parallel is in no way a far fetched one.
Im of the firm belief that with proper marketing and promotion we could see steem in the top 10 crypto in market cap. Even at 50x even 100x price in the next 6 months.
The problem here clearly is the inability to anticipate investor perception with a lackluster marketing strategy curently in place.
Which is why its extremely important to start spreading the word as soon as possible.
Investors react to expectations on price fluctuation and the only way to affect expectation is to provide something that offers value (we will have that with SMTs) and hype that "something" to the moon.