If you look at it this way, it is kind of a long term investment. Of course I love seeing 30 votes and $10 SBD in one post, it means a lot of powerful people liked it but, let´s say one of your posts has 300 upvotes and 3 SBD. That means a LOT of people liked your content and that means a majority of low account power likes.
Maybe every vote is not worth much right now but in a few months those same votes will be worth a ton, that is if we keep contributing to the community growth as a whole and that every wuality account grows with it.
But we have to see our involvement in Steemit in the long term, otherwise this whole idea will fail.