I'm aligned with your personal opinion in this matter. If you look at the list of top 10 people who have been rewarded the most, almost all of them are continuously making over $25 per post. Some are writing 4 such articles each and every day. To be honest, very few read those posts that read $25! The worst is, they get high rewards for the same posts on steemit as well!
Have you heard of upvote services running behind the scenes? They say, you delegate to me, I will upvote your posts. These are no less than bidbots.
And no one realizes that including communities and we are saying hive will cherish !!