I think the rewards for posts are mostly based on luck

I would say that to get rewards here and do well (especially for new users with no stake), it's not luck, but mostly a matter of looking at what kind of content gets upvotes from curation groups and bending your way around them. The problem is that it makes a lot of what it on Hive feel like fake pretend content just there to get upvotes. It's funny how many people who have been here for years with daily content and never made movie reviews all of a sudden became full time reviewers because you are near guaranteed to get curated since scrobble.life came to life.

I still think the right way to go about it, is that people have some kind of passion and want to make a blog around it which, as a side effect, potentially earns something, and not like in most cases where people just want to earn something and then start blogging about what achieves that goal most efficiently.

I kind of like the auto-upvotes, but it comes with a certain level of trust, as you don't want to have people on your auto-vote list spamming content just because they know guaranteed votes are coming.

Your blog really feels genuine and your wallet also shows that you are a net positive for the Hive ecosystem. That is why it's easy for many to put you on their auto-votes and rightfully so. Sure there are always others who get more and for some it might not be fully feel fair but I guess that's life (it's not always fair).

For as far as Hive Savings go, I generally don't like the concept of 'staking coins just to get more coins' as it's kind of a circular. I rather give Hive more use case by requiring everyone who blogs and gets author rewards also to be a holder of HP to get the most out of it. This will push more toward leasing HP which should increase the Yield for investors who lease out their HP.