You are correct and I completely agree with you.
I am spreading Hive voice around, making new people being onboarded like my wife Mary and other that are likely going to join soon.
I have also a small project to deploy a curation trail to support minor (but really important imho) topics that are not otherwise easily supported by other trails.
I started this year from 1000HP and settled a target of 5000HP by the end of the year. It was just a number BUT it led me to understand more how to become a better blogger in a Web3 environment dealing with much navigated bloggers.
And for sure, it also helps understand the system itself. Too many people take a random approach, never really learning the basics of the mechanics and it costs them. Spending time understanding how all this works, helps buy into the system, because it is awesome :)