haha it's not meant to be scary, if it is it's due to the unavoidable consequence of accepting some trade offs.

It's been a while since voting for someone else's post didn't feel like you're reaching into your wallet and paying them directly out of pocket. And that's the problem, voting rewards are now seen as staking returns.

It's exactly what we're trying to change. See how the measures compliment each other. If I decrease one, I'll likely have to increase another at equilibrium. More measures is actually safer than fewer.

Imagine how high curation would have to go for me to be pretty confident it alone will change the status quo. 80%? 90%? That makes it pretty pointless for non staking authors to participate.

Using multiple measures at once is the precise reason why we can achieve big change with acceptable trade offs.