I think it depends on how the client decides to handle the different aspects.

Sometimes I interact with notes based on how I personally want to save or review them. I find myself bookmarking a lot of content that I find valuable however the creator of the note is completely unaware of it. Nostr is so much more than traditional social media and I'm starting to think that trying to create within that limited framework is actually limiting and slowing nostr on its growth path.

If clients differentiated between likes, zaps on the user side and on the liker, zapper side (I had a record of all the notes I've liked and zapped) I am then incentivized to use them differently.

Right now they just seem like varying degrees of the same signal in which the weaker will inevitably fade and drown out.