I remember your advertising service, never came to use or promote it, but I liked the idea and overall professional look of it.

Leading up to 2018, we had people developing things in all directions. Hopefully, we will see that again.

Yes, this should be our main goal. There are many things being planned by the witnesses recently (also a new steemit roadmap for improving condenser, steemd, community features, DAO etc.). Many developments are happening in background without touching the surface, but I think this will change at some point in this year.

If we really make use of the DAO again or find a better way to support developers, we will see. I guess most of us would be willing to invest in somebody who will bring steemit.com to the next level (or build something better from scratch).