It should get better when the 5 min curation window is gone. I don't know how long you have been on Hive/Steem, but the trending page has gotten a lot better. Not that I would say it's good, but at least I can see improvement.

I think the way things are heading Hive won't be all about blogging soon as well. The blockchain itself seems to be the valuable aspect (with the 2nd layer applications on top). Maybe we will find other ways of distributing the token? There's talk of microblogging, for example. But yeah, it's still a long road :)