On average, we might be too many creators and too fewer consumers on Hive, that's true. There is also the possibility that some consumers are just that, and not commenters. But still we don't have enough consumers on Hive and never will, unless there would be a way for content consumption to be rewarded, other than by upvoting comments (because many readers never comment).

I am practically on Web 3 only as well, but, for the time being, I consider the best route for me is still to create only open content.