This is a serious thing. Everybody has been asking for easier account creations. It helps every cause. Easier to onboard new users, easier to make transactions, easier to create a bigger network in general. 
Steemit is still lagging behind, but there have been updates and they have spoken about making account creations much easier and faster.
On the other hand, multiple frontends have taken it up to themselves and offered immediate account creation if you sign up with them.
I think that is the first step towards finding a solution to this issue.

I highly appreciate your stand on using STEEM. I think more people should realize that trading just steem, instead of converting it to something else and then trading.
Well written!

I agree that it's a problem to go through the hassle when you want to create a steem account.  And as a newbie a couple of months back, I also thought that SteemIt was the same as STEEM.  Now I barely use Steemit because I like others apps better - like eSteem, Steempeak, and Busy.  I try to spread the love, lol.  And of my favorite phone app is @partiko.

It certainly takes too long to get an account but the issue is with people creating spam and creating tons of accounts to harvest funds from the system.  Each account is delegated a certain amount of power and if accounts were free then people would write scripts to create a 100,000 accounts and then use all those accounts to upvote their own post to gain a significant control over the reward pool. 
It is a tough problem to solve in a system with free and instant transactions and also a system where new accounts can partially dictate what happens with a reward pool of new coins.

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I think the biggest problem is that most people out of steemit dont know that steem and steemit are not the same

The head nurse herself was here for @jwolf to give a little extra love to your post <333

I agree, two weeks to get a Wallet is just too much another problem  is the interface that is in beta since forever.

You can send crypto with blocktrade to your friend that have no steem account.
Blocktrade can convert your steem to litecoin and send it to your friend wallet.
There are account made available by steemians to newbies. It is faster than create on your own.
Peace

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It is an issue to be sure. I know there is a lot of confusion in the public about the differences between Steem and Steemit. The whole onboarding problem has been here as long as I have.   I think @steem.ninja with the $2.50 account is a step in the right direction!!