At some point, I realized that @liberosist was right in his view about upvotes and payouts. In these current values of SBD and STEEM, quality is not correlated to the amount of potential payout of a post.

Desired length of a post is irrelevant either. In @berniesanders' post, he just declared that he liked a soup and asked what kind of soup people want. All that in about 20 words. But who am I to judge his post? Maybe the value of his post is not on his post alone, but on the comments and engagements it gets. Or maybe because he's a whale.

Let's just continue with what we are doing. It will always make sense in the end. Let's just look at the intrinsic rewards that we can get from what we are doing. Let's go back to the reason why we are here in the first place.