it's quite a conundrum. For one, keeping at least the hp part would help distribution and decentralization, you could make the argument that 1000 minnows have as much sway as a whale on witness and other gov votes, and they'd be able to start earning a decent amount of curation rewards over time for passive earnings as to not force themselves to post all the time or get in gray area farm activities.

At the same time, you are here, you see it working in your favor, you much like everyone else are quite a nobody outside of hive that wouldn't earn anything anywhere else so you could easily understand how nicely this place could scale if everyone was rewarded for their social activity yet you still choose not to leave any stake in the project that's been so nice to you? it's quite weird indeed.

Now of course some can't help it, their financial situation may call for it, etc, but when you see other people that ought to be better off still have no stake it's like why do we keep throwing money at them.

If hive were to exist on another chain I bet there'd be way more downvotes and they'd be a lot more protective over their l1 reward distribution.