Besides a complete shift to unbrainwash the world into acting like less like sheep and tying their success to reward at any cost?
I guess it is about incentives. There should be more incentive to create quality than incentive to play a numbers game. This is not the case now. Numbers of followers means rewards and attention and since people have been told to engage and follow to get followers and attention, the cycle feeds on itself.
There is also the chance to strike gold by offering little. I see introduction posts with very little content getting into the hundreds. Where is the incentive for quality and consistency when that happens?
Should reward come with luck only for if that is the case, steemit becomes a lottery. This means that many people will do all they can to win the lottery rather than the hard work to create and build. Just like real life. The streams will get clogged with low quality.
Not a very practical answer I know.