If well-established bloggers migrated onto Steemit...
They won't. Far upthread, I quoted a well-established blogger who posted a comment (or a blog, I forget) to Steemit, who explained the economics well. Bloggers go where the readers and economies-of-scale are. Medium has 25 million readers.
The hen-and-egg dilemma has to be addressed in a very well thought out way.
It is insufficient just be a good programmer and fake your way into being an experienced Internet marketer.
I think I'll watch it play out before declaring it 'dead' based on a few anecdotes during beta. I'm sure there were people that visited "theFacebook" and "Twittr" a few months after they launched and thought 'what is this shit.' Still very early days for Steem and Steemit.
As far as crypto tech goes, Steemit is a very interesting experiment with a working, easily accessible prototype and potential use case (a far cry from the vapourware, ICO crypto speculation vehicles that permeates the space).
Like any project, internet marketers can be on-boarded. It can potentially be done in a decentralised way, which again I think is a fascinating angle.
It will also be interested to see how Steemit's potential competitors fare (Synereo, Yours, Decent, Akasha etc.) in terms of attracting talented writers and proving meaningful remuneration to them.
I've yet to see a single crypto that has made meaningful traction in terms of marketing itself to the masses (I'd include Bitcoin & Ethereum). So Steemit is no different on that score.
If Steem/ Steemit is a scam (I don't think it is but that's the thrust of this thread), it's one which the crypto-community could learn from in terms of how to potentially reach out beyond the navel-glazing crypto enthusiast.