Long term I think it should also be a goal for larger parts of the Splinterlands community to be more invested in Hive as well. At the very least that means doing some 100% powered up posts, or swapping HBD to Hive and powering up that from time to time.
At the moment, we rely a lot on the curators and contests, and I cant help but feel that it promotes extraction. If more community members have a vote with some value, and of course used that vote on content that they like, I like to think that it would lead to better content and more active engagement here, which would in turn be better for Splinterlands too.

+1 to @seattlea's request for AI cover image guide. You seem to be a master on that. I would love to learn.