The whole thing was missold. It's not about rewards. If you focus on rewards you are bound to be disappointed. It's a platform to be creative and find other creative people and their creations. I like to write, the rewards are the cherry on top. If you come for the rewards then you are doing steem wrong

Are you interested in creating content ? Are interested in reading something that others have created ? If yes, just do that and forget about the rewards, think of this as Facebook with a twist. Billions of people spend days on Facebook and write stupid things and share them and read other stupid things that others have shared. And there are no rewards. Do the same here, forget about the rewards, they will be the nice surprise at the end