These tools can be great for those with low HP. It does help when the price goes up so that votes are more likely to be over the payout threshold.
I tell newbies not to worry too much about voting on comments, but with Comment Rewarder they can still give rewards.
You can also buy into things like !BEER to be able to give something to people, but it's not worth too much really.
My account is in a strange place. Because of my promotional work through legacy social media, I get more views off Hive than on. I also incorporated HIVE into some of the local journalism I perform.
On a fundamental level though I like to give back value for value.
!BEER !PIZZA
I don't do much on other platforms, so it's all about Hive for me. We do need to make more people aware of it, but I don't have the time and I find some of those platforms toxic.
You're not half wrong. Bad tools can amplify or encourage poorer or worse manifestations of our character, or persona. Legacy social media is primarily tokenized with dopamine and transitory validation, negative expressions produce more dopamine.
Given its transient nature, and diminishing enjoyment from each subsequent dose of dopamine and associated neurotransmitters, you get people chasing their own addition to the responses in their brain chemistry with more and more negative communications. Legacy social media requires some additional effort to use and consume well.