I think this speaks more about the stakeholders and what they prefer to vote on. If stakeholders are unhappy with what they can find we should be seeing a massive increase in them delegating to curation projects that do support what they want to see.
Perhaps there are not enough curation projects finding what stakeholders want to see so they result in just-auto voting anyone that posts a few times a day and uses there VP?
I create content around whatever I’m up to in the gaming world. If I only create a couple of posts a week I’m fine with that. I don’t see a reason to create something I did not have passion behind. As far as rewards there are more rewarding places to go. They just have fewer freedoms in exchange for a chance at a bigger payout.
If people only earned based on viewership I suspect we would see an increase in HIVE only love fairytale posts about how amazing the platform is. As many people agree with each other in an endless echo chamber of self-love pat each other on the back. Hive is the majority of shared interested across most people here and thus a driver of the biggest internal traffic.
As far as people finding the content they want. The 7-day cycle is a bitch. People who are looking to use up there VP for the day are not going to go look at 7-month-old content even if they could find it. As a result, many focus on the short term. It’s rare to find people even linking out to similar content they have created in the past at the bottom of their post that content consumers might enjoy looking into.