Fantastic arguments for the rewards-before-engagement point of view! You're also bang-on with the professionalism that people put out on the platform due to the incentive of reward.

Unfortunately, many people take it the other way and realize how easy it is to make a quick buck spamming nonsense. Check out the amount of daily plagiarism with Hive account@steemcleaners and Hive account@cheetah daily logs.