"There aren't any incentives to curate manually now."

This is only true if the only incentives that exist are financial. Since that's not true, neither is the statement that there are no incentives to curate manually.

That they are discounted is very true, however.

The underlying problem is stake-weighting, both in RL, and on Steemit. The benefits of society are far more than merely financial, and society is much more than an economy, and far more profitable than mere money.

While you're quite correct in what you do address, failing to acknowledge the actual cause of disincentives will not potentiate solving the problem. Merely mitigating the symptoms doesn't solve the problem, and I expect that mitigation but staves off negative consequences temporarily, and that they'll come back and bite us again.

Thoughts?