Well said my friend, well said.
I would say the number is probably less than 100
If the number of manual curators are decreasing or the curators are too busy with their offline lives I think they should get more people onboard. A lot of us sleep and wake up on Hive and have enough time to sort out original contents.
It breaks my heart when I see a beautiful content that was written from a user’s heart get little or no support and I see another user’s post with just a picture of a cake with two sentences getting enough votes.
One thing I tell myself and friends is that whenever you get to that point where the little upvote on your posts do not get to you then you’ve gotten the Hive spirit.