You're right, I remember the early building days of Leofinance.io, they really worked on engagements on that platform, the engagement was what paid off till date as one of the best dapp on Hive with the most sustainable token price.

Some years back, I can't remembered the account name again, but that guy was a whale and always shows the statistic of how engagements was boosting the overall online presence of Hive on the internet at large, using many Google analytics tool.
He use to say it then that if we just drop post and go, we will turn Hive to a content graveyard or dumping site. But engagement keeps a platform alive and trending.