BTW: I proposed a fix for those issues 3 month ago - but it ironically it suffers from current problems as well - no attention.

If anyone is interested, just here comes a REAL solution:
https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@steemhq/how-to-make-steem-great-again-the-exponential-author-reward-method

Maybe it's worth it - a well known witness should repost it, in order to gain attention.