The reality is that Hive would most likely not get more traffic even if it could get ranked in Google or other search engines. Very few are targeted to any specific audience or written for SEO. THere is even fewer articles that would be interesting to most outside of Hive.

In fact as you pointed out, most people on Hive don't even read what is posted, they just vote and move on. Those that do comment, are mostly transactional. They will only comment, if you comment on their post etc. Some don't even do that. The last couple points is why I have mostly stopped posting and wasting my time on Hive. There are a handful of people I enjoy interacting with, you included, but other than that, muh, just another crypto money making scheme to me.