Yeah, it is probably time to switch gears.
No longer are we going to be an avalanche rolling down the mountain to crush the old paradigm.
Now we are a snowball hoping to not melt in the sun.
Thanks, imo, to stinc's 2 year walkabout.

I looked at my rewards a little closer, and you are correct.
I was getting ~15 steem a post, and that is about what I get now.

My vote being smaller really hurts because it was my policy to only put it on posts of people being real if their payout was 1stu or less.
Since the fork I have raised that to 2stu.
So, my vote will never see the upper edges of the curve.

If we hope to draw in more users, we have to support the ones not privileged by being here earlier.
The folks that come here and post real content have to be our priority, during the accumulation of users phase.
Voting only the golden children will not attract a wider audience, even if it will maximize curation rewards.

I know I fall into that category, but I do my part by only voting less popular content.
I don't think a steem full of chads and stacies is gonna bring in the normies.
I could be wrong, they do well enough in real life.

At least we got a chance at pob, now.
Overall, I haven't seen any glaring deficiencies in hf21, and much to like.