Some of the large DVers aren't even actually owners of their large stake, they've been delegated their massive HP to wield all that power through DV as they choose.

This has become a platform where the powerful accounts who get "loaned" their massive HP from others in return for ROI (not actually HP that they own themselves, only delegated) are then negating the ability of others to get ROI on votes from their own HP that they actually own. But they don't care, because they got the power and can get away with it.

There are better ways to "make your money work for you" since you can't do it here. You can take what you own and use it elsewhere: DeFi.

Taking my curation rewards away on my votes to others that get DV (that's apart from huge DV on my posts from these massively delegated account(s)), is a negation of the whole purpose of curation rewards and having HP to vote others with -- they don't get rewarded, and I don't get ROI... it makes having HP pointless at that point other than just holding onto the asset.

So might as well get some ROI somewhere else since DeFi exists now. I had enough after 5 years ;) The negation of my curation was where I had enough after all this time. I wasn't too interested in holding and waiting. So I bailed. Thank you to Steem/Hive and what was created, but the DV behavior has ruined it for me.