The sad thing is we have all been saying that same thing for the past year. Don't get me wrong I am a believer in Steem, but sometimes I get the feeling we are just fooling ourselves. So much of it is a guessing game dependent on arbitrary if not magical forces...
I have faith in this place and I suppose you mustn't over think it. It is still very new and has to grow , but there just isn't a lot of people here. You are about the same size as me and we are growing well these days and I expect we will be under 2000 in ranking over the coming 6 months.
I mean, we could totally all be fooling ourselves... but Facebook is getting less cool by the minute, Steem is getting more and more developed and honestly, as jobs start disappearing to automation and AI, I do think people will start to turn to Steem for an income. It really is still early days... and we might totally be Beta Max, but fingers crossed we're totally not.