"If you pay someone to like you, no one actually likes you"
Mercenary liquidity is extractive and will leave the moment somewhere else pays them more to like them. Taking the 'energy' of productive members of the community with them.
Arguably, what we lack is more productivity. Authentic users who contribute and are active in creating the environment we would all like to be in.
Ideally, we don't want people who only use the platform if we're paying them to. Problem is, we're paying them to park their money and then any semblance of usage is gone.