You got this post spot on. It is quite annoying that someone will create quality contents and share to his/her followers, only for the posts to be restricted.
Like you rightly mentioned, "Do they think us content creators are made of money ?!"
No strategy worked for me so I decided to stop bothering myself about it. I just publish my contents on Facebook regardless of if my followers are allowed to view or not to view.
This is why Steemit Rocks!!!
Glad it's not just me then! I think I need to do the same as you and just stop caring about it !!! Hopefully Steemit will be the future for us all :-)
Steemit is simply the future!