I'm sure people will still curate, but I'm also curious to see if curation will drop right off after these changes.
In what way?
The changes are going to give less money to bots and more money to manual curators.
Are you worried about bots curating less?
That's not going to happen either as they scrape a fee off the top no matter what.
No, I wasn't worried about the bots curating less, they'll always be around as long as they can make more than their computing costs. I was more thinking that if people don't have to curate to earn a passive income (ie, through holding HBD) then there would be less people throwing their stake into the curating pool and therefore less rewards for creators.
But I'm honestly not that worried, especially if similar changes are already working well on Leo.