Not like people would flock to use it because of this anyhow.
Probably makes more sense for new features like <account name>'s curation feed to be implemented on the frontend than continually trying to fix the broken trending and promoted feature.
SteemPeak has something similar, but I would prefer a way for me to directly display someone's feed as a normie.
For the Steem you get from upvotes to have any value the token has to be used for competing for attention.
Most burned to @null is one way, Time will tell how effective it'll be.