I guess it's not just about effort when it comes to creating an account, I know hiveonboard.com for instance doesn't work now cause dev is quite afk and the recent hardfork update made it stop working.

A way to quickly post a comment or follow an account to receive a notification next time they post or something could help without going through the whole process and only doing that once you've used hive regurarly for a while to the point where you may have some pending rewards waiting for you. I guess that's my hope of the way the lite accounts will work.