Trust me, it´s much better now than how things were on Steem. I mean the % of really good posts that somehow end up not getting the rewards they deserve is much much smaller than it used to be back in the old days of Steem. We have many great curation groups that manually browse the newly created posts every day, we have many solo curators who also try to support good quality content, especially by small accounts and newbies. This is also why I came up with my Saturday upvote giveaway series. I still need to check out the nominations from this round btw, I know there is yours too ;) Sorry for not replying yet, I have been very busy lately...
Hive is far better than Steem no doubt :)
But yes consistency is the key I will try to be as consistent as I can :)