Because attracting users is its purpose.
It's not authors' faults that curators have made the place soooo unwelcoming.

'Join the gang or it gets nothing. It jumps the hoops or it gets the flag!'
Free thinking sovereigns won't be voluntarily having much of that, as the truancy numbers clearly reveal.

Yes, but not often, nor lately.

No, I haven't, but I will take your word for it.

Well, I did see that one 80rep guy being exposed.
But, excepting you, how many complainants have skin in the game?

I have been offering a solution to this issue for a long time, but the people with the power to make the moves are unwilling.

Power in the hive must be willingly left unused by those with the most of it for the restofus to benefit enough to continue to play the game.
That power point has not yet been breached by hive.
Steem had it, and squandered it.
Hive has failed to launch it, instead 'they' take what they can, 'because they can'.
No surprises that people that can math don't play our game, imo.
The power to price ratio is too far out of whack.
And that is unlikely to change any time soon, in the opinion of many.

If satoshi had kept it all for himself there would be no value in it.