I don't really see the point in it. It favours boring bloggers that just write but it fucks over the concept of a creator on here that would want to reinvest into their craft. Whether it's artists that use art supplies and want to buy more to continue, or photographers/videographers that want to upgrade their gear.
People on YouTube constantly upgrade their gear to increase the quality of what they create even if that doesn't always lead to an increase in earnings. Here that's definitely the case, it doesn't increase anything to have a fancier camera or a better mic. Hive doesn't actually care for creativity or content quality.
So all this KE stuff means is that it favours traditional blogging and not a content creation cycle. And promotes this dumb concept of punishing those that might actually be trying to either pay a few extra bills with Hive or try to upgrade their gear. Take yourself as an example, where you're using TikTok to grow and also potentially use it to increase Hive awareness through it, you'd now be considered a "leech" and likely punished for doing so if you wanted to spend some Hive earnings on a new camera.
At the same time there are people that drop thousands of Hive in a single transaction and it'll barely do anything to their KE because they either get stupid amounts of support from circles on here already. But then a smaller person that has sold an equal amount of Hive over several years and barely earns anything per post is considered the problem.
I just think we're focusing on a nonexistent problem for the most part. We should be finding ways to bridge people to Hive and keep them here, and also fix the dramatically low volume we see on exchanges due to no interest, but all this is doing is trying to limit how people use Hive and enforce the views of a select group that are already doing well. Inevitably pushing people away.