I am not from Steem days but from I know (can be wrong) it was too easy to get high rewards in Steem just publishing something with enough quality.

If this is true I think people are just doing what they used to do and it won't be easy to change that in my opinion.

However I completely agree with you and I think there needs to be more engagement between people on Hive since this is a social network but if we are cold to analyze maybe people don't do that because most of the votes are automatic votes in which people don't even read the content of posts even when it comes from whale votes.

This makes it enough for people to simply post and receive automatic votes = profit.

If the whales start taking into account, for example, the number of comments made on Hive to give these automatic votes, maybe a lot of people would lose those votes and they would realize that they need to interact more with people.

I know that the ocd, in the manual curation, is taking this into account.
A good post only has their vote if the person interacts in the community but just one whale doing this is not enough to change the entire community behaviour.