Onboarding and user experience is too shit to get anyone here that isnt driven by a few dollars per post. Thats why the marketing shift was away from it. We only get the third world here almost 100% of time. Theyre willing to deal with bad UX because those few bucks mean so much.
If it was up to me and I ran Peakd, ecency, hiveblog, id completely scrap 90% of what exists on the frontends. Go full short form.

Maybe that would change the user structure a bit. When everyone else wasnt pressured to blog.
No one gives a fuck about blogging.

Hell, I didnt even read this post you made here. Not fully. I havent read a full post in I dont think 2-3 years.
I just read the comment section here and skimmed every second paragraph you wrote to get the full picture.