I think that showing effort in the content is one of the best form to encourage authors to stay here, engage and potentially bring even more people.
As you correctly say, a few on the whole Hive ecosystem are professional writers (I am not) and all the rest could be easily replaceable from better writers but that's not the point of a Web3 ecosystem. Or at least, not the only point. Efforts, struggles but also the message of the content should be emphasized teaching contents, relevant experiences and so on, are other real treasures that in Hive have the chance of getting more noticed.