This can be applied to everything in general.

If the user experience is not good, then the users choose something else.

This is obvious.

And this is why nowadays I rather spend little time on Hive.

Mostly cent payouts, low amount of (often visibly forced) comments. No or very little actual interests in the contents.

Not worth it.

My time is worth much more than a few cents and a few (often forced) comments.

Even beggar homeless people earn more, and I saw this with my own eyes.

I rather try to build real life connections, relationships, friendships, and I rather use other, socially properly working social networks and platforms to communicate with other people.

Nowadays I use Hive mostly to write for myself (document my life), and as an investment platform.

I spend very little time online.

And I do what is working, and what is worth it.

I invest money mostly from occasional jobs to build passive income for long term.

This side of the Hive blockchain is very good, for example currently the 15% APR interest rate of the Hive Dollars (HBD) savings (it was 20% APR in the past, but the 15% APR is still very good).

But Hive is nowadays really bad as a content publishing platform, even with unique content, because of the general lack of real content consumers, who would be actually be interested in the content.

There are a selected few people, who are successful on Hive as a content creator, but most people's posts are ignored/overlooked/undervalued because of the above mentioned thing.