No need to worry about questioning things.

There are very few influencers on Hive, some of them I've seen are independent journalists/influencers outside that seem to receive a lot of support over time on Hive but barely ever try to actually bring traffic towards their accounts here. This is what I've had a problem with in the past that has caused for some drama, especially from the supporters of such accounts retaliating and wanting their way to continue even though the influencer accounts have received less engagement/consumption here than random newbie intro posts. It's felt as if we're quite literally throwing value down the drain letting that occur over time without any resistance and thus I've been quite vocal about it to give them appropriate rewards or at least have them try a bit harder to grow an audience here if they for some reason don't want to bring their audience from outside here (which I can't come up with a good reason as to why they wouldn't want to do that).

Trending is a bit meh as well, there's a lot of accounts that don't seem to be responsible and check some factors when they cast a vote, with haejin/rancho being the worst of the bunch and often determining trending on his own. There are also a lot of accounts with a lot of stake that are either on auto and don't refresh their lists often if ever which in turn creates an avalanche effect of more people jumping on the upvote train.

I'd be interested in what you deem to be hypocrisy.

As to your point about needing more OCD's, I'd welcome that, especially when it comes to the manual and vetting process we do and especially when it comes to rewarding curators/community leaders in a more transparent way and at the same time hold them accountable for certain votes if abuse/ulterior motives are found. Instead we have big accounts /projects that aren't transparent about it, or the way they reward their curators if there are any which often leads to them using the voting power in shady ways to either upvote themselves or generate alt accounts to do so (which could explain the account and curation behind the example in the post).

That said, there is an issue with some of our votes where others will pile up theirs on top which may get them to trending even though it wasn't our intention, it's difficult to foresee when that is going to happen, especially considering we're voting up a lot of daily posts from unique authors and trying to mitigate that means we'd have to forfeit curation rewards which would just cost delegators in APR, and since we don't see many others doing things as manually and transparently as us it doesn't make a lot of sense to punish our delegators while others get free reign on keeping their APR while the curation accounts continue to remain lazy, suspicious and often times baffling with their upvotes on certain accounts/content.