"...most are so focused on rewards only that there is little organic engagement."
I am glad to see you understand how financialization of curation deprecates the actual social function free speech effects. Curation rewards destroy curation.
I hope that someday you undertake to support the far greater value of free speech than mere financial aggrandizement. The future, not only of Hive, but of humanity, actually depends on it.
The truth is that if Hive doesn't, something else will. We can, being early adopters of Hive, benefit from Hive's success, or lose that advantage when Hive is no longer the best mechanism for society to undertake free speech when another platform is.
RE: Some Thoughts on the Future...