and like the fact that anything worth more than 20stu or so seems to be decent quality and/or actually popular.

This is the way it should be, which is why it is ridiculous when some groups have hundreds of posts with a reward of 18-20 with no comments on them.

I definitely have to up my curation game as I've stopped upvoting comments and find myself sitting at 100% too often.

Me too. Especially since I have been travelling and hardly have a moment to check my feed for long stretches.