I don't want to speak for others, but one of the reasons I even went to r/startpages was for inspiration. After being inspired, I would comment, participate in conversations, try out things people have made, give feedback and in general be a community member. Without existing content for inspiration, people like me have nothing...
I had a custom new tab page working in Firefox on Arch Linux before I had to reformat due to various reasons and wanted to start new since I was changing my workflow from minimal no DE, no display manager, bspwm to Plasma 5 and SDDM etc....
I've been using this as my Startpage for a long while now. It's the same as Dribehub's Nord-Startpage with a few tweaks, such as an image background and random selector for the central image....
I wanted to say, I only found this by asking in a subreddit how to find this page. I had no idea about this page until then, and the original subreddit is private....
I don't actually have a new startpage to show off, but I want to share some of my old ones. I last posted these on reddit in 2019 (4 years ago!). https://imgur.com/a/UTdxeQv...