You're 100% correct. I'm part of the people who left hive and is back, the value of hive coin is impressive and as new users see this they have big dreams just to get here and find it extremely hard to get voted other than boosting which is bad, someone spends hours creating and proofreading contents just to get nothing.
Although I have invited a friend to this awesome platform and also started a program on hive called hive education, just released my first article on such you can check it out on my blog.