I think you missed the part where the creator would be paid based on performance from the dhf. And that the new audience would not be brought over as content producers but as content consumers. If the content creator did not engage and find ways for their audience to buy and power up hive, they don’t get paid.

This requires a complete mindset shift to what Steemit was originally created as: an alternative to Reddit where people were rewarded for their attention. It has been engrained in our head for so long that hive is a place to get paid to create content that we forgot that we have an incredibly unique system where people get paid when they vote (it’s a tiny amount but how much do people get paid to vote on YouTube or Reddit? 0)

We don’t need any more amateur content creators (and I count myself as one) we need content consumers.