It's partially because, in the last 2 weeks, active daily authors has moved up by 6x. Price has only doubled.

That's a reduction to 1/3rd of the previous available rewards prior to 6/1, if evenly distributed. I suspect either Steem will have to rise in price, or we will lose a lot of these new accounts to this frustration soon. (Then again, can we really expect more than a few pennies for content when we are new with no following?)