While I agree that it's a great way to earn money "for now", as you say, I think the system is yet to be pressure tested at scale. High quality video content, on DTube or DLive, stands out a bit more since there's a higher bar for entry, and fewer people using those platforms. Combine that with the large SP delegations that both DTube and DLive have, and there's more than enough voting power to support the majority of creators.

But I'll be interested to see how this changes as more people join. The manual curation approach is great at first, but as you can already see, the devs are far more likely to support creators coming from YT/Twitch with big followings, in order to further scale the audience. But in the end, what will really make the difference is capitalizing as much as possible now, growing the audience while there's way less competition, and then trying to keep up if it grows rapidly in the future.