Yeah, it's true that until you have a certain amount of HP you can't really do well on curation. You earn some but you're earning far less than 1 hive a day. Once I started to get to the 7-8k range I'm not averaging 2 hive a day in curation. It's not a heck of a lot but it's adding up pretty fast. I look at the accounts curating for 10+ hive a day, to me that's insane! I aspire to get to that someday. Getting 70-100 hive a week just from curating content seems pretty incredible to me.
I used to delegate all of my power away. It has its purpose for sure, if you're going on vacation for example and can't do it but I've enjoyed doing my own curation. Lots of fun!