Steemit will continue to be flooded with content every day and curation is a problem for sure. Communities are trying their best to manually reward good pieces of content but it is ultimately a front-end issue. dApps like esteem, busy , paritko and steempeak as well as steeve will all have to come up with improved methods of curation and recommendation engines to help users find content faster
I'm sure we will eventually get there! Steemit was just an example of what this blockchain can do not the be all and end all of the product
RE: The FUNDAMENTAL issue of Steem nobody talks about... Part 1: Defining the problem (+ Bounty!)