There is a bit of a decline in users recently and the potential for lower posting rewards will not help. You need a lot of SP to really benefit from the curation rewards. But I will tell people you can still earn more of Steem than you are likely to get elsewhere. What we need is more real curation of good content rather than self-interest. We need to think about what future Steem has.
It will be interesting to see what difference HF21 makes to the graphs in the next week or two.