Correct.

And in addition, unfortunately, we are still facing the old STEEM problem: posts of well known or rich users receive many (auto) upvotes already within the first few minutes (even if the majority of the 'curators' don't even look at the content), whereas others get nearly no upvotes at all ...
(To say it drastically, many people prefer to sh.. on the biggest heaps instead to seek for the smaller ones.)

I think the incentive to earn more curation rewards when upvoting early is part of the problem. Instead of getting rewarded for hunting the posts of popular authors and upvote them automatically, real curators should try to find these good posts which haven't accumulated much rewards after more than an hour!