Thank you for your comment and illustrative affirmation.
I actually still haven't quite understood the voting curve and schedule of votes, as well as the reasons why it was set that way.

But you're right. This promotes a behavior that no only discourage people to commenting, but also affects people who produce quality posts but
are starting on Hive and haven't got much visibility yet to get high rewards. The worst consequence is that good content creators would ultimately leave the platform.

I agree with you when saying

If we want to encourage comments, the reward schedule needs to change to one that creates incentives to upvote them, and not disincentives

Incentives can be created in a variety of ways. I'm sure and hopeful that our experts can come up with them.

When discussing an issue, I usually look up for the key concepts in order to build an opinion. In this case was entitlement, which got me to reflect on that. Because even though I believe in this, I did feel discouraged at first, but then decided to enjoy the ride regardless of other people's attention or support. But then I realized that interaction is key to thrive on Hive, and with that change of perspective I've gotten better results.

Thank you again for your input. It was definitely rewarding 😉