I feel like things were much better during pre HF19 i would make $1 or $2 per post and this would remain unchanged for a week now i make on a post $8.53 when i wake up it's $7.12 and it sucks because number of upvotes are even increasing but potential payout is decreasing its very demoralizing.
I have read all manner of explanations on why webare having this predicament and nothing explains to me why HF19 is better than what we had previously, if anything it has affected the price of steem significantly and also changed voting patterns for minnows, dolphins and whales because now voting power takes forever to reach 100%
Most people thought minnows would get more from this hard fork but the real winners are whales and anyone with reputation score of 65 and above because their posts gets upvoted automatically even without being read.
Policing is still happening where some users want to shape steemit in the image of medium and with declining payout this makes things even worse!
Hope something gets done.