I agree with everything you said. Engagement is what we need to work out, as a community, if we want Hive to succeed. We need to attract new people and keep them around. I am often sad when I curate great posts and I see no comment, or only 1-2 comments...
Many people noticed that recently, are saying it loudly... I hope this will have an impact. The future will tell us!
Thanks for your comment!
Interestingly, I was going through my old posts and noticed 2 to 3 years ago, the interactions on these was soooo much more. On a positive note, when I drop a comment on someones post, I usually get some response. This gives me a little hope. More people should start dropping the initial comment and maybe we will see not only the numbers going up in terms of comment/post ratio. I'm increasing the start of interaction more and more when curating the chain with one of my alt-accounts; Hopefully this leads to something :)
I again share your conclusions, and actually your behaviour too. Hopefully, if many of us starts to act that way, things will change in the positive way.