Now that I've been on both sides, I totally agree with what you're saying. I haven't bashed the platform or have been a whale (I wish) or anything, but I felt a degree of that self-entitlement a few months back. I stepped back and reassessed everything, and realized how silly it was to be chasing after rewards.

As @lukestokes put it, "everything is a gift". People forget to realize that if they post something that earned a dollar here, it would've earned nothing in other social media sites. That dollar can already be considered a profit.