Yes, this! I make it a point to spend my VP every day, at least into the 80s, and respond to posts and comments. My "replies" tab, which I check all the time, is much quieter than my outgoing comments. I realize not all of my comments require a response, like, if I just said something like, woah, that's a really cool photo! ...you might say, "thanks," but it's not super conversational to begin with. But if I'm responding to a more text-post by being wordy, yeah, it's often an unanswered comment. I get that people who are really popular get ten million comments and so they can't stay on top of it, but I see newbies do it too who are busy leaving trash comments everywhere, and I'm just like ...y'all ...you might get those follows you are asking for if you stopped asking and instead responded to the people actually trying to ENGAGE with you!
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My ambition is to end the day somewhere between 80-85. I generally don't have time to, unless I have a couple of consecutive days off, which is about as common as a snowstorm in the Sahara.
I know you're a frequent enough visitor to probably have noticed that my posts always end with a series of questions... which is basically an invitation to engage (or an attempt to create engagement); that's part of my "mission" on Steemit; get people involved; perhaps get people to think about stuff they wouldn't otherwise. Sometimes I just piss people off, and that's OK, too... it's still a form of getting people OUT of the routine of mindlessly clicking on upvote buttons.
The flipside, of course, is that I DO get a lot of engagement, and when posts routinely end up wioth 30-50 comments, I end up with not much time left over to explore other people's content. But at least I try to make visits here somewhat worthwhile.