Thanks for the comment.
All I know for sure is that if you are a very talented, new writer. You will get big rewards...only up to a point. It will stop. By that time, you've already grown attached to your friends and community. Hence, 'stay for the community'. And you'll find out soon that if you are only here for the money then the platform favors the - early adopters, circle of whales, people with big money to inject to the system. Otherwise, people with low sp will take a while to get to the top as you said, and they will remain with low sp. And the others will get more sp. The economy.
If you are here to write, make friends then good for you. Just the UI / design of the platform is not for the 'bloggers who are here not to make money' but for the community thing.
But let's wait and see. You can keep working hard, but lower your expectations. Goodluck to you.