Been saying that for ages.
Nobody cares about some big corp censorship. Or even free transactions. Not your averages internet surfers. Hell, it’s not even accurate to say you won’t be spied here.
Shills keep shoving the “buzz words” to the wrong people.
I think by this point, Steem is only useful for people to paint a “new” cyberspace persona for yourself because it’s not linked to the mainstream right now.
Once they launch communities and SMTs and in case they allow people to distribute ad revenue (if Steemit.inc doesnt allow it some other front end like @steempeak will) between holders what you get is a true use case with tokens that have tangible value.
Essentially a Reddit but better in every way, considering they fix the UI and copy some of the functionality.
At that point you have a product for the mass market.