The way Hive works and the way some whales act is what makes these things happen. In reddit, people post what they want to post. They ask questions, they get answers, they post stuff that many people will not agree with, etc. It doesn't matter if you just created your account or if your account is 10 years old and posts a lot. It's the post itself that will attract attention, not the account posting it.
In hive we have much less people. So the incentive is not to get answers or the interaction via comments. The only incentive is getting some money. Here it matters if you're well known or not. An account that was just create or even an account like mine that has 3 years and has posted a lot but mostly on Splinterlands, can make the best post in the world and it won't be as rewarded as a post by someone very well known. Comments also rarely get upvotes so why make them? And when the incentive is just to make some money but there are people who can take it all away with one clock on a DV, it drives even more people away.
Comments are a way of building your network, of starting relationships with other accounts who will get to know you and your posts with the potential of voting for them. It's how you get known.
That might be true but the comparison with reddit still remains, where the comments happen naturally but they're also not needed for engagement in your future posts. If they are good they will get upvotes and comments.
I understand what you are saying but reddit is not the same thing. Hive is about an experimental approach, it is about how would/could things work in a decentralised environment. How do we build alternative economies?