Appreciate you voicing this out. However all things being subjective - I think the initiatives that @gavvet and @dragonslayer109 are doing is bringing unknown authors into the spotlight - value adding in some ways. Personally, I think the best way to pave forward is to attempt to do something better, or more "substantial" as you put it. TBH, I think we'll start to see many more curation lists (maybe far superior in quality) sometime soon. People can do anything that they want on the platform..