If we allowed accounts to upvote themselves once a day, on a comment or post, it's a motive to hold HP.

Instead we insist on pretending we have a bunch of curators who read all the posts and vote accordingly.

If we treated Hive more like a social media site and less like an Author's Guild we would appeal to a larger market share.

But, yeah, currently not self upvoting is part of the super weird culture that HWs and a handful of the original Authors have created.