First I would like to say, welcome to musing! As a dedicated user to the platform, I'm thrilled to see new interested users! I hope you will stay a while and experience the platform for yourself. I think that you will be happy.

but does the platform really deserve your time and inputs ...

The idea is to help other community members with inquiries, and receive input for your own. The platform is merely the intermediary for this, but they do a fantastic job at incentive based rewards.

I won't discuss my personal earnings with musing, but I will tell you that its public information, accessible on the blockchain!

Here is a tool that makes the process of calculating your rewards easy:

https://mysteemitfriends.online/upvotelist.php?voter=musing&author

If you are at all curious how much any user has made here, you can easily find out with this tool. I won't be offended if you decide to search my user name to see what I've earned ;)

Also, this pertains to you as well. You can input your own user name, and check your reward status.

In full disclosure, I have earned more with musing, than with any other dapp on the Steem blockchain, by far.