Yea, there's always going to be some that get more immersed (typically through speed of 'success'). Having a real life social group definitely helps this though...especially being able to just meet up with friends and walk them through stuff, explain gotcha's first hand, give templates for them to work from, etc.

Often the main issues I've seen are:

• those who need to have things to say drawn out of them a bit, since they see it as trivial
• help with early exposure through resteeming, chat room promo, etc.
• time to build/market posts and finding place to fit the time in
• presentation of content and title/thumbnail that's more conducive to steemit curators/readers

I definitely agree with all you're points! I'm just babbling a lot this morn :P