Yeah it looks like the new curve is all about solidifying those who invested money or got in early and have stake to try and build a user base that can take it forward
Redfish came in and instead of staking took rewards and left and instead of buying when whales dumped they continued to farm and sell. That sort of behavior won’t work now if you want to bother earning anything long term and while it may put up a barrier it’s something better than we had
I mean there’s around 25mil steem at current price liquid on the market! No ones picking it up for a reason! Steem was always seen as a means to sell fro fiat or BTC and never something to hold
Its a change that we will see how will go. STEEM is one of rare tokens that actually is given away to the regular user, and it still holds value. EOS for example has its witnesses that are taking all the inflation/reward pool, and then they are trying to develop dApps and use cases for it. It is extremely investors friendly at the moment .... but they also want to distribute their token trough social media in the future/voice, and we will see how that will turn out. They will start the workers era soon :)
STEEM is in good position regarding distribution ....