I'm gonna say it again: your "people should comment more" take just isn't ever going to result in that.
The people who are going to comment already are.
What you're really doing is expressing a perfectly human, normal desire for attention, but in a self-entitled blamey way which, frankly, does not encourage me to think I'd want to actually give it. There's a whole world out here, you know? And a whole bunch of cool stuff for people to look through? And most of the time, for most of the people, the most — and I do mean most — effort they can burn in exchange for the sight of your particular Cool Thing is a Like.
The amount of artists who make themselves sound resentful of the existence of Likes is baffling, frankly. If Likes weren't there, the vast majority of the people hitting that button would, faced with only avenues that instead demand a substantially more effortful, specific, articulate response, would just do nothing.
I don't think the people complaining actually would prefer that? They've just wandered into sounding exactly like it because they won't correctly articulate what they're experiencing as their own feels; and that ends in them portraying it instead as a failing in their audience.
Please, for fuck's sake, it makes you sound awful.