Great point of view as always Dan.
As you said there is many content creators/authors out there...they are naturally out there...
But the main mistake they are doing is selling off their rewards to the exchanges.
In my view they should be keeping it and using it to power up so they can give value to their communities/followers and people they get to the platform.
Because many new people are giving up when they see that they don`t make progress in a short period of time and there is noone to support them because those people that got them to the platform are selling.
Me for example as I sad in my post to you in HERE Im here for a long run because Hive will be costing $100-1000 a dollars some day so there is no point to selling it for a pennies. Thats why in post to you I asked for some help to build a Bulgarian community and spread Hive into my country because is easy if I can help people with a little piece of rewards so they can stay in the platform.
And as I said if you willing to support me Im gonna be doing my best to use the stake for growing the community you can check my post for a little more details. My end goal is to show the full potential of Decentralized platform to everyone else because they just dont want to put the time and learn and understand.
I hope you see some value in my words.
Namaste