I don't blame the platform, and I don't blame curation.
My position is the following - I believe that curation overestimates its importance. In fact, this is just a concentration of power in one hand, who decide "who is worthy and who is not worthy." No more.

You do nothing to grow.

And you probably did a lot of things to get curating? =)) It's a matter of luck and chance.
My position is the following, despite the presence of curation - the platform does not give people what they come here for. Not everyone for sure.

As we have already found out - the quality of content is too floating a variable. Artificial intelligence will write an article 100 times better than me, especially in English. Does this mean that artificial intelligence has quality content, but mine does not?

This is an extremely complex issue that no one will solve within the platform. Because - and in this state it is good.

You are talking about the benefit of the ecosystem.
What is the benefit to the system in this post?
@danielvehe/atardecer-en-paracuellos-madrid-eng-esp

Or why is it not useful? How is it worse than the previous one?
@yagelybr/esp-eng-iniciativa-creatividad-humana-manualidades

Not a single message on the social network has, as you put it, "value for the ecosystem." It's just a social network, the concept of which was about income. But instead, there is a certain pool that the whales have divided among themselves.
And all because the site is also controlled by whales.

The question of the usefulness of the site has already been raised. Many times. In 2017-2018. When people were arguing why a post about travel is better or more useful than a post about exploring different industries/subjects. At that time, a travel post was gaining, for example, $ 1,000, and the site was also called not HIVE but STEEMIT, you should know that. And a post, for example, about how to program something or set it up - gained 5-10 dollars. (Or close to it).
The activity in those days of the network was MUCH more. But for some reason she disappeared.

Since then, nothing has changed! At all. In addition to the name of the platform itself and some improvements to the engine.
Therefore, the question of value is an extremely disrespectful question.
Confirmation of my words is this document to which the turnover of top HIVE projects does not exceed 20 thousand dollars. All network(!!)
Isn't that an indication?

I won't bore you anymore. =)