I like your analysis a lot and personally I have a lot of fun on Hive, I am one of the privileged who already has a fixed salary as a professor and I can understand some users who are out of work or have lost it. But I wonder: if they have the skills they put them into practice on Hive, current affairs articles, latteratura, crypto analysis, art and so much more. There is a lot of people ready to support them and vote for their (original) content. So instead of feeling sorry for themselves or railing against downvotes, they started studying TRUE and Interesting content.
I continue to have fun and make art in my life, and Hive always inspires me to do better.

Greetings to you Taraz.

(I always like to read you when I'm not painting)