You are absolutely right 👍 what i find difficult and challenging is the amount of time you can actually dedicate to the platform. Writting an article, regardless of english not being their mother tongue language, it s an energy that many, me included, can't afford on a regular basis.

I think the "getting rich scheme" mindset was very 2017, 3 years later with the actual experience of crypto based social media things started to ease off about this little dream that only a handfull of people actually acheived.
Today many give up quick because the system of daily retribution is more complex that we thought and still rigged by big players who only got successful based on financial investment rather than actual creative materials. There are many talented writters and the little amount you just made writting this good article shows for itself that, your dedication goes beyond rewards.
Also i use my phone like many to intereract with hive, and we know that phones are not design to write articles. I personnaly use Hive account@dapplr for hive now which is a great dapp optimised for phones.

The tools, the availability, and the perspectives of engaging are 3 main variables that are left after financial investment that requires the attention of investers. Although things have been moving towards curation communities we face bahaviours where without manual curation the system will always turn around the hive power that you have regardless of genuine content producers.

My ideal situation would be that we are intereacting with a curation framework optimised with AI where rewards are not shown in the absolute but work in the background. I think that interacting on a platform that shows rewards everywhere is primitive because our interaction with money is like that.
How can you motivate peeple to come and engaged if the first thing they see is how much money they could make? It s an investor mind set not a creative one. The futur of crypto social media to me will hold in people that will put first their singularity and creations without financial expectation. Thats also why instagram works.

For example, i busk in the streets of europe, people pass by, stop, apreciate and give me money. They don't know how much is in the hat, and would they give something if suddenly the motivation of giving would be altered by the amount i have already in there? I believe they would because of this distraction.
There is a lot to think about,, but showing the money will always make things worst and it shows that crypto is still speculative and crypto projects are bubbles swimming in this market.