YES!
I love your reply and agree wholeheartedly. That's what the system once was. Old days of steem development, posts on development used to be thriving with activity like what you mention in your comment.
Now it's like you said again.. people bypass these posts thinking "no reward there for me and no interest on that there from me!"
Well then I guess to play devil's advocate.. Hive has had no real cosmetic changes that users can treat as a new shiny toy to play with. It's all lypo suction and heart surgery.