No problem with the quality of content? Probably Ned lives in some other isolated Steem-blockchain and sees it not as we all see it.

If a year ago quality content was considered the content created by the whales (because they could selfvote their own posts to $ 200 and even $ 1000) and our Trending page was formed by the whales, now the quality of the content is decided by the bid-bots and vote-sellers.

In fact, nothing has changed since the HF19. If you have enough money, you will be able to place your content to the Trending page and it will be considered as a quality by default. Regardless of the community's opinion and the number of views.

And about 1 million users ... you know, when I compare the numbers from the @penguinpablo's reports and Steemcleaners'/Spaminators' reports about huge post/comment farms, I sometimes think that we have no more than 10-15 thousand of real active and fair bloggers here.