I personally have had a hard time adapting to the interactions, the truth is that I have no idea what has happened to me in that aspect, because if I go back to the old days of Ste... My interaction was daily due to the fact that I was a curator in several communities and I did it naturally.
When I focused on being just a content creator this changed, and I received a lot of criticism and that's when I felt that in a way I was being imposed to interact with others.
I'm not going to say it was time factor, I will admit that sometimes it was the ego telling me, "just post and you are not obligated to comment because you should not do something obligated".
But times change and one can reflect, I think I already have more than a month interacting with people between the time I have looking for what content to do, preparing my content, working outside of Hive (organizing my time, I think it was an important factor).
Right now I don't use the networks to interact about Hive directly other than doing some kind of like or RT because I don't have the capacity right now to maybe approach someone and invite them to Hive (something that happened to me every time I published something about Hive in my networks, people were interested in knowing what it is).
I know I have had many differences with people including you, but I don't live from the past, I guess the idea is to improve, and now that I do I understand your point of view and it is not only understandable, you are right.
I hope for me, it's not too late and I'm still going.
Right now I'm a bit affected by seeing very high votes on posts of less than 500 characters.
But I'm betting that somehow that person is giving some kind of value to blockchain and not continuing to think that there must always be something wrong.
I always thought that a longer, well arranged, non-plagiarized post had a better chance than a short one without any arrangement. But as I said, times change, and I want to focus on the positive to improve, although there must be people who see these flaws and say something even if others don't like it.
I am not forcing myself to interact right now, on the contrary I am looking for the way, I am searching very well what content I like (sometimes I think I am following the wrong authors and it did not help me much to interact), now I have the time to go deeper.