In my opinion, Steemit tries to lure in with the promise of rewards and that is why you see so many crypto posts or developer/programmer posts.

This about this: I am a Microsoft Windows Software Developer who simply stopped after a number of years. The developer and new app posts are paid a lot but nothing in comparison to the amount of effort put into developing and getting right in a world of constantly evolving Moore's Law increases in technology and the amount of education and time spent in the development of an application or computer program.

Most people do not understand how books are written let alone have any idea how a computer program is written and yet the program is used as if it were magic, the book is read as if it were magically produced with the wave of a wand when in fact a dedicated genius if not hundreds or thousands did an absurd amount of leg work to produce it.

When one succeeds in writing a post capable of generating a huge reward and maybe a hundred posts, then one will receive that big reward and maybe not even then. This is the writer's life.