Well i believe steemit has a bright future. I am a blog hunter myself and i do post on several platforms such as reddit, medium, blogspot. newbium etc. Amongst these blog sites all steemit has one of the powerful plagiarism automatic installed bot which keeps the community full of originality. Authors on steemit are free from plagiarism unlike other platforms that i am aware of.
Also when we consider the user interface of steemit to the other blog sites you will realize that steemit has a very user friendly interface for easy use. Steemit also provides nice Markdown style features which makes blogs look attractive.
Finally, believe it or not steemit has numerous members in their community and it is one of the blog sites among the few where you earn money as you post your articles. Well i guess i was able to convince enough about the future of steemit.