Your story reminded me how some time ago I liked a girl from Hive. This was long time ago. Anyway I liked most (if not all her posts-even those that were past payout...🤦). Sure back then my vote was very tiny like around 0 tiny. But I could have used my HP better.
I am investing time, effort and money in to Hive. Been here since 2017. Have not cashed out anything yet... And no one owes me anything. Future is not promised and I already got my rewards for the past efforts. Would I sometimes have liked those past rewards to be a bit bigger? yes. But people gave me rewards that in their eyes matched my efforts. Perhaps my content was worth more but I did not do good enough job engaging with others so I got less rewards. Or perhaps my content was not as good as I thought it was. Either way getting less rewards was probably my own fault. But at the same time I will probably only be able to achieve financial freedom with Hive rewards. So getting bigger rewards is always nice.