The 7-Day time window for upvotes just makes it hard to make it view-based as viewers need to come in quickly while if a post goes viral later down the line it wouldn't benefit from it. Also, there is the question of how easy it is to fake views. There is also a reason why the view counter on posts was removed on Hive. The reality also is that a lot is just a big circle jerk as most on hive (including myself) are mostly interested and read content about Hive itself.

I'm definitely all for users on Hive who drive traffic to the site to get rewarded for it one way or another. Right now the way the system works there is no real incentive or benefit for anyone to really put effort in this. Rewards on posts will show no difference if you put crazy effort sharing it everywhere (Twitter/Reddit/Discord/Telegram/Forums/...)