Thanks for these great informations. I had no clue about how curation reward system works. Well now i have information but still will depend on authors or whales as a minnow.
I think most of the minnows don't comment on trending posts to get rewards from curation, they are voting for high upvote reward potential. And trying to be first at comments because some authors upvote comments based on how fast they are written, not caring about what they wrote.
I agree with you with the idea of commenting or upvoting contents we like but when it comes to upvote rewards, it brings power and popularity to minnows as well as some money.