No surprises there, and if it helps whatsoever, I can tell you that we have quite a flexible/adjusted curation, both in ocd and zingtoken based on activity and hive price. For instance you may notice often votes on
which pretty much means no author rewards go out for those. Naturally we wanna reward people a bit extra after hive 2-3x'd but I feel like more projects should adjust how much they give out during price fluctiations or at times like these when there hasn't really been much new users coming in (yet, I hope). This way those that were here during the low's and stayed staked "win" a lot more than those constantly extracting cause else it means they can just extract more value now when price is doing better.
Anyway, don't wanna defend some users' extraction or anything, it's quite weird how active some are in the community but hold no tokens or alpha vials for instance and a bit sad considering how much rewards they may have made, but I assume the same happens everywhere and curator's should definitely adjust votes based on how active that author is socially, how vested they are and providing value in different ways other than just posting and going afk potentially on other accounts, etc.
So yeah, while you're right it's definitely something we're at least trying to improve on so it doesn't become too bad and I hope more project's would care about that too.
RE: A sad realization about Splinterlands Hive Resource Extraction :(