Thanks for your response. I think we on agree a lot parts.

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.

What I meant with luck is, that if you have the luck to have a following that autovotes you, you can post whatever you like and still get upvotes.
Publishing what gets upvoted most also kills the diversity. The short media platforms get overloaded with 'game achievements' at the moment that it's not even fun to scroll through them anymore for me (yes, I can use the one front end that filters them out, but that is not a solution to the problem).

The problem with autovotes and votes without reading content is that the rewards get too centralized. Do I deserve more for my posts than someone that is new? I find it unfair that a newbie, that posts the same content as me (or even better) doesn't get the rewards because they are not autovoted. Then they need the luck to have a real manual curator to check their post.
For them it's not very encouraging to see their posts with no upvotes, comments or rewards and others earn a few bucks on an automated post of a 2 kilometer walk they made.

If the inactive autovoted could earn more with their stake by putting it into savings, the people that really curate would have more weight. And I think in the end it would benefit both the content as user retention on Hive.