I agree, it's super addictive! In all honesty, I think it's designed that way. But yeah, even as a minnow it's fun watching the snowball of SP building up, earning you bigger and bigger curation rewards, that you can then apply to SP...and on and on.

You have my sincere admiration if you hit 500, and then 5000, from zero! I invested a little more of my crypto stash than I'd care to admit to get to where I am quickly, and I'm closing in on dolphin, but yeah, I agree, orca seems impossible. But hang in there, if you had the patience to make it to dolphin, I have no doubt you'll get to orca!