Thanks for taking the time to read/comment. The quality and quantity of my posts are nowhere near that of many users so I'm not complaining but as you said, I have been here a while and if I didn't delegate 250SP to a community account that gives me 1x $0.50 upvote per day, pretty much all of my posts would earn less than a dollar (and probably less than $0.50) unless one particular lovely whale that follows me notices my post and upvotes it. When that happens my post rewards go from less than $1 to $8-10 and more when the Steem price goes up, but since most posts are only visible for a very short time unless I pay for upvotes (which I stopped doing quite a few months ago), this doesn't happen as often as I would like.
The upcoming hardfork doesn't appear to do anything to address the problems highlighted by the people who run DLive and others which bothers me but perhaps it is because I don't understand it all well enough or am simply thinking too short term. Hopefully I'll get some comments that will help me understand and perhaps change my view.