Is there actually no way to recover my password since I haven't logged in in forever?
There is not, at this time, a way to recover your password (much the same as any coin if you lose your private key). There was some talk about setting up a way to recover accounts so you might want to check back in the future.
There should be a way to recover the password. Because this is not social media platform not the wallet of the coin.
You can't compare this to the private key of a wallet.
It is actually both. The web site is a web wallet.
Anyway, your point is valid from the users' perspective and that is the motivation for adding a recovery feature.
Can anyone tell me where the money comes from that content providers are being paid?
It comes from new coins created every block, as is done with mining.
Is the project team anonymous?
The coin is developed by Steemit Inc. a US company. The CEO (Ned Scott) and CTO (Dan Larimer) are public with their pictures and videos all over the internet. I don't know about the rest of the dev team other than them being employees or contractors of Steemit Inc. I think some of them have introduced themselves on the site.