Now let's say 10 comments appear from 10 unique users replying to the question, some go further back and forth with the author of the post and readers may read a few of them and give them some small votes as well.
10 comments from 10 unique users? Nowadays that is an ambitious number on the Hive blockchain. Hopefully we will get there one day. Nowadays most people are lucky, if they receive comments from 2-3 unique users on a post.
On a scale compared to Reddit this could become thousands of comments and thousands of upvotes from readers, but we're of course not there yet.
We need more content consumers on the Hive blockchain. There are too many content creators, and only a few content consumers. This results in a lot of good posts being ignored/overlooked, because a lot of posts are being published every minute. The low level of commenting is obvious, even if someone does not take a look at the statistics.
If someone regularly write comments, then it is pretty easy to get near (or even within) the top 10 of the engagement league without much effort. Nowadays I do not put a lot of time into commenting either, but I am still in (or around) the top 10 of the engagement league. Being in/around the top 10 this easy is a clear sign of the general lack of interaction.