This doesn't surprise me, it's always been like this soon as the price goes up a bit with Steem, remember at one point Steem hit $8, with the price of bitcoin these days Steem should be much higher now, but see there are too many earning big votes here who just continue to power it down. For us to retain and increase Steems value we need to vote more on users who are buying or keeping their Steem. I have personally been doing this for a few years and the support for this isn't exactly the highest it could be which sometimes I do find a little odd.