Thanks for this nice summary! Yes, the curation rewards increased hugely in the last few months and I'm enjoying this very much :)

I still think that the change to 50/50 for the author/curator rewards share was a good one, because our world has way more content consumers than actual creators. If people would know the numbers, they would without any doubt join us and power up a bunch of STEEM to curate content and earn big.

Now there is a great chance for earning well on Steem for both authors and curators.