This is one of the reason of why I stood with Splinterlands for so long

Same here, creating content about Splinterlands for me has always been more fun (and way more lucrative) compared to actually playing the game. It makes no sense to spend Thousands of Dollars on a card collection that is sure to go down in value along with thousands of dollars on SPS while being forced to grind this game hours daily for a couple bucks only in earnings while making some content can earn you 10x this with zero invetment in the game. I would go as far as saying the the only way to actually come out on top as a Splinterlands players is to blog about the game. I used to take all earnings and buy more cards with them but with the continued crazy printing and card devaluation I'm done with it now. I also stopped making 2 Splinterlands posts a week as I don't want to pretend which only really creates content about how things are being messed up all the time.