I agree with the bulk of this except for one thing which I think it's truly broken and that is the curation system.
Back when we first started it did work as a way for good manual curators to try and find new and interesting content. Now though it is merely a pile on to posters who get good rewards.
Increasing it to 50 would exacerbate this I feel. People would still pile on to the posts they think will earn biggest rewards. Because they see the dollar signs of the big money.
And I know that the biggest curation rewards go to those posts that are discovered when they have little rewards already but it just doesn't seem to work out like people care about that now.
It's a tricky one. I think a slightly super linear approach to rewards would be good but that gives me the fear that the people who use multiple bid bots for their posts would abuse that as it were to then make a proper killing on their promoted posts.
Abuse will happen anyway, but point is good behaviours shouldn't be completely left in the dust. Moving away from linear also means posts would need to have votes congregated, so it's manageable. Under linear, the abuse is spread out and distributed widely.
Yeah, I'm with you. Something being done is better than nothing. Some right out of the box nonsense would be good :0)