You said yourself about the dollar value of posts vs the steem value. You just have to keep telling yourself that and ignoring the seemingly crap reward you get for your work.

Im seeing it too, $3 per post is what I get, it sucks but Im not getting out. I see everyone's full vote value go down and down and mine stays the same as I have been powering up all long.

I will see the benfeits when all the doom and gloom is over. You have seen it before, so should be more hardened to it than I.