While I don't care about centralized crap, I do care about Hive and I want to see it thrive. And if I understood your attitude correctly, it seems to me not the most beneficial to this goal which I'm sure we share.
Disagreement on rewards, and hence downvoting, seems essential. But if I understood you, you are actively endeavoring to chase people away from here because you have a theory that they are xyz.
How do we find out if your theory holds true? Or rather, to what extent it holds true? I myself am quite sure that it holds true some of the time. But 100% of the time, or even 70% of the time? Don't know.
Maybe there is a more flexible approach that doesn't chase people away but also doesn't allow pure extraction to happen. Simply prevent extraction and let people know that you want to make this a place where genuine effort and integration with the community values is rewarded. Maybe this greater flexibility will even attract the kind of people you want to see, or even encourage some people change their behaviour when they get a better understanding of what is valued.