To be fair, I don't think anyone thought it would be any different. The only difference is Steemit Inc is gone, which does lower the supply significantly, and means we have a new set of developers but that's about it. The underlying platform is still as broken as before, and so far I don't see anyone looking to change that.
All that said, Hive now is worse for curation than Steem before Justin Sun, and that in turn is far worse than it was in 2018. Not to mention, the golden age of curation - mid-2017.
Funny you should say that. Only the other day I commented on how I have more HB than SP and yet my rewards on Steemit are greater than on Hive.
I think this varies from account to account, depending on what your follower base on each platform is like. I tend to get more rewards on Hive than Steem while crossposting the same posts, likely because some people that read and vote for my posts have moved to Hive.
Because no one is doing anything on Steem and everyone is powered down, so there's less competition for rewards.
In that case, I'm staying on there then. I'll clean up in a month! 🤣