I feel your pain; been around about the same amount of time, and it's sad but true.

The way the rewards are setup, there's the motivation to follow people that could care less about, but they get lots of rewards so, it's good for curation. The people that actually have something worth paying attention to, well, they mostly get lost in the crowd.

Then, not being very active on the platform, there's no real motivation to make elaborate posts since most of the time they will just slide unnoticed into obscurity. (Almost motivates to just go back over old posts and repost them again as new)

All I can really say is good luck in the search...