You touched on a good point.
I am talking about the Hive blockchain.
I think the source of all these problems is automatic voting. There are curators who have not done manual voting for years. There are posts that have won tens of dollars in rewards with a single image that has automatic voting.
Without automatic voting, organic interaction on the Hive blockchain would increase more. Therefore, quality would increase.
I think automatic voting should be prevented somehow, but how?
It can't be prevented, maybe by placing fees on the votes but that would go against hive since it is feeless.
Only way to combat it is by downvoting which affects authors as well.