The changes of HIVE's price could influence this situation as well.

It definitely does. What is interesting in this regard is that for example, I generally give around a 5% vote for many comments, but the value of this is going to depend on price. While that might have been 4 cents a year ago, it is now 40 cents. This means that for those who held a year ago, their comment that earned 4 cents is now worth 10x more.

I have been posting similarly for years now and getting rewarded, but it wasn't always the case. When I first started here, I wasn't earning much either and at that time, it was even harder, since the way the rewards worked and how there were only a few people with stake voting and, they had a bit of a circle vote thing going on. Building an audience and engaging with them takes time and effort.