"...people are trying to get them engaged early on with big payouts and hoping they stick around."

This is a thing. It didn't phase me, cuz I'm not after rewards, but I've seen folks get so excited by their early success that they quit their jobs, and then the letdown afterwards (when the promoters go after the next mark) really left them in a lurch. Kinda sad, but life is a learning experience.

BTW, I'm totally not a robot. I'm just here doing the things we people do, like eating food and hanging out with all my human Steemit friends =p