The issue is in people having misaligned incentives and over-inflated expectations when coming here.
One can currently not expect to earn hundreds of dollars per post. Not when the price per token is 13 cents.
The economic incentive of posting on hive is currently broken only because $hive is so undervalued, like most other coins during a bear cycle.
A 10$ post now is close to 500$ at a price of 5$ per token and I do expect $hive to reach that valuation and even more, during this imminent bull trend that has seemingly already started.
All of the people that left because of the price decline will turn up once again as the price recovers, mark my words.