After using Hive for years, I honestly feel most authors who work hard on their content are earning far less than they deserve. Someone who spends an hour or more on a single article/post of content they carefully designed, on average I feel deserves 4x more than they received, and have to split with curators.

Even if everyone was forced to manually curate and read every post they upvote, there would still be focus on collectively supporting on the most profitable posts, leaving most people earning far less than they deserve for their posted works.

The only way around it I can imagine, is for most people to willingly offer up a portion of their daily upvotes to be randomly distributed to posts. Ideally rewarded posts or authors are pre-vetted, or ranked, to not offer these rewards to low-effort or junk posts.