If people aren't consuming content here, it means the content they see isn't interesting. That means either there isn't any interesting content here (which I don't think is true) or we are failing to show users the content they want to see. That in itself implies our curation model is not working, regardless of the apparent quality of the posts that get upvoted to the front. eg. comparing Hive to Steemit, we are clearly better, yet compare it to other social media such as Reddit or Instagram, and people are way more interested in the content they find there.

Why would a user who doesn't have a stake here waste their time when they find better content more easily elsewhere?