Revisiting this argument makes me nervous. Why do we continue to talk about vastly altering the foundation of the platform time and time again? There's nothing more contentious than continually talking about how to reallocate the inflation of a cryptocurrency.

Investors normally trust that the inflation of a cryptocurrency is going to be pretty predictable. Anyone who pays attention to Steem is going to be constantly reminded that we are forever wanting to tinker with it.

In my opinion, forced curation makes no sense. Curation implies your content will get viewed, but the entity really responsible for displaying the content is the frontend (Steemit, Busy, Steempeak, Parkito). Payout doesn't affect visibility unless the Steem frontend in question directs it to do so.

Curation should be completely optional to be determined by the content creator. It should also be optionally applied to resteems (which is curation by definition). This would make it even easier for curators as they would be able to scan the blockchain for content that was offering the highest curation percentages and pick the best content from a smaller pool.

Forcing people to use the curation mechanic is shady,
and talking about doubling down on it is even worse.