I'm feeling exactly the same way and it's definitely kind of depressing. I just wrote a nice fiction piece that I think I'm going to make into a five-parter.... and while I really like it, it didn't do as well as I had hoped. It's about a Toxic Olympic ceremony that takes place on a ruined Earth that has been conquered by a race of aliens called the Zarkonians.
Yesterday I wrote another chapter of The Adventures of Nick Murphy which is a detective series I've been working on..... and that one took a long time. I don't mind telling you I think it's fantastic but I don't think anybody except for maybe 2 people read it.
I really appreciate those people. However, I do feel like people are coming here just to click buttons and get bitbots working and not to read, evaluate, and comment on other people's posts much anymore.
I'm really hoping that changes with the advent of communities.