There are 'points here on which I already have an opinion formed in the short time I have been in blockchain and yet I am not going to touch. But I want to say the following:
LoveSniper seems excellent to me. Although I could not enjoy it because it was created a few weeks after I joined, I think it supports newcomers with its introductory post. One suffers a down mood when your post gets few upvote, since the effort is quite a lot, especially when you are for the first time in a blog.
Actually I have seen that many introductory posts have a lot of upvotes and rewards and that's fine. It's motivating and keeps us from quitting in the first few weeks. However, I have also seen cases where the rewards are "huge" a few hours after publishing and when you review that supposedly new user, you find that behind him there is a group or people who are even curators in some community. I think this is extremely unfair and should be avoided.
Of course there should be advice, support, etc., I applaud that, but it should be careful to what extent the influence of these "experts" creates a disadvantage for those new users who have started by our own means in Hive, and that finding out, reading and analyzing we have made our first post and the following ones.
OCD has quite strong rules of the game, but I think it can't be otherwise: there will be many who try to win with little effort and perhaps succeed and others who, however, despite having a quality and visually attractive content will go unnoticed.
In my opinion, in curation there must be a lot of objectivity and work ethic of the person who acts as a curator at a given time, thus expanding the possibilities of visibility and development for all users.
This is my humble and inexperienced opinion.

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