You could not be more correct. While I advocate for simply eliminating curation rewards altogether, I actually see benefit to creators being able to set a curation reward as they see fit not only to them, by drawing audience, but to the community. Simply, every empowerment of individuals that does not take from others is a good that benefits the community/society.

As you point out, extant curation is a forced tax on creation, and this is why I have advocated for it's elimination.

Thanks!