Good points. I don't think it's just creating "good content". The key to making money with content creation here is that the content has to be Noticed and upvoted by people with significant steem power like Whales. If content is noticed and upvoted by a lot of minnows, it doesn't seem to get traction. But if a Whale jumps on a post, it will make money. And the Whale(s) will follow and upvote other posts by the same writers because they make curation money on each successful post. I'm most definitely not complaining. I'm working on some content to publish and enjoy the people I've chatted with so far.