Let me get a bit out of topic but in the end it is all connected, believe me :D

Theres simply not enough people here for them to care and the base layer rewards cant attract them.

This is a closed circle, base layers rewards can be enough to all if hive price goes up, hive price goes up if there is visibility and good Dapps.
One example, why shouldn't I leave YouTube and start with 3speak if everyday you need to get help on a Discord channel for them to manually finish your upload because it just doesn't work on its own? It's just comic! That's the real reason You cant onboard them, but we can always pretend other reason.

barely made 500 USD in a month after spending 10 days of my life in mud, cold and rain

You and other guys doing those work to the Blockchain marketing should be payed for that by DHF funds, period!

VSC is setting up to offer most of that

These are the same guys that made an app (3speak and SPK Network) who can't handle 100 videos a day without 10 support requests or recommend to first upload videos on YouTube before post them on 3speak, because of encoding issues. But let's wait and see what they do with VSC.

What else can we do?

Come up every day with these type of question and invite people to talk, agree, disagree, find solutions, improve, care, encourage resilience and critical thinking. Honestly is always the best and only approach, instead of saying we are the best, talk openly about what we can do better is what I expected as investor.
There are too many guys in Hive looking in the mirror!