We need to emphasize the idea of curating, consuming even staking when you can too rather than relying on big upvotes too.
If we are to believe that Hive is more than just 100 or 200 actually active people, then having even small fish voting on each other would amount to something. One thing is that I don't think we're really as active as we'd like to assume, people are far too spread out in those niches, so votes are even more thin.
At this point curation is entirely arbitrary unless you're part of a select few. We've seen how people with 50k HP can get targeted and downvoted and rejected from the norm of big account = getting high curation. Hive at this point is just a flatlining bore for the majority and a money pool for an oddly tight circlejerk.