For me it's one of those things with Steemit for me that it's nice that I can potentially get some form of revenue from it, however I simply don't expect anything out of it other than writing what I want to talk about, which often involves spreading awareness of the deaf which itself will evolve over time as well, among other topics of interest to me.

Though, I will admit I have hardware in the IPFS system, 100 gigs of space in fact.  It's not just those pumping money into the system that are contributing.  They invest money and are heavily rewarded for it.  I threw in hardware and I get no direct benefit but a net negative.  So I can't entirely agree with your premise about those that spend money to buy Steem Power being the only ones that need to be happy.  Those of us that invested hardware into the pie also have to be happy.

I dislike it when people fail to realize that it's not just monied interests investing into the system that give any sort of value and not just the content creators either.  Those of us with hardware in the pie are the ones that get primarily shafted, especially so is the case when it comes to these kinds of discussions because we're completely left out of the equation.

Either people A).  Don't know that we exist or B). They simply choose to ignore us.  Without people like me volunteering our hardware and bandwidth, your pictures and uploaded videos (dtube) wouldn't be possible.

And I certainly don't get any Steem Power for merely hosting the hardware and bandwidth, allocating my own personal resources to the pie that people like you get to enjoy.

If you'd like to contribute, consider installing IPFS on your own system.  I have 100 gigs allocated for IPFS and 150 gigs for Freenet Project.

As you can see, clearly, by simply rereading your own article, it's a thankless task.  Perhaps it's just assumed that the Steemit developers do all the hosting themselves rather than offloading it to a decentralized network? =\