One of the greatest aspects of Hive is that you don't need to go "viral" to earn something. It's more egalitarian than anything else similar online. Not perfect, by any means, but better...
Sure... but you can basically earn nothing if you do spot for spot comparisons with the mainstream. Hive cannot sustain a creator ecosystem even at a 10x. The ceiling is far too low.
If we want that to be possible, if we indeed want a mainstream viable platform to exist on Hive we simply need to look at L2. I dont know what else we can do to the base layer besides increasing inflation significantly.
I dont think many will opt for that.