The tribal tokens have some value for curation as they provide a way to give extra rewards to content.

Unfortunately, none of the tribes are making any effort to focus the content and they are all just generic mush.

The decision to raise HBD interest to 20% seems to have put the nail in the coffin of most HE coins. There were people who were moving their HBD earnings into HE to buy tokens. Now that market has gone dry.

You mentioned Steem. It is interesting to go to SteemEngine.net . That place is struggling even worse than HE.