I think quality posts like yours deserve to be updated. The ideas you express are indeed critical to the direction the network takes and ultimately the user interface will have a huge impact.

Steemit.com can run bots that do statistical analysis on actual traffic received by each post/discussion and based upon that algorithm give "bonus votes" to content. The exciting thing about Steem is that so much of its potential does not depend upon changing blockchain mechanics or adding new features to the blockchain.