Here are a few places you might not know about to find good posts easily:

• The daily @trufflepig report shows 25 posts that are "good"" per their algorithm but do not have good rewards on them.
• The daily freewrite prompt post by @mariannewest has excellent authors posting great writing. @freewritehouse has compilation posts with the best of the best.
• @socalsteemit promotes good California posts in several of their weekly posts.
• @qurator has daily posts spotlighting authors and themes. There are a lot of good posts there and few have good rewards.

I'm with you on the delegation issue. A lot of people who used to give me nice upvotes and engage are down to 500 sp with the rest delegated. The new paradigm is challenging to say the least. I stopped messing with the bidbots and got onto some trails instead. Only one of those I vote on and I am not sure about that. Who knows for the future. I try to keep up with the times as best I can.