Hey @eurogee,
While it is definitely your right to share thoughts about any matter that concerns you, yet I believe you are unable to see the big picture, and this being because you are not involved in the daily moderation (curation) activities that our utopian team goes through on a daily basis - being a supervisor I have hands on experience with this, and most importantly the huge amount of abuse and "milking the system" activities that we see.
We are constantly faced with duplicate accounts, plagiarized content, stolen tutorials, pointless promotions, machine and incorrect translations,...to name a few, and those at times require drastic measures.
For visibility, and as a quick example, we have seen people promoting projects they have no clue about (2, 3, or 4 projects a day) nor that it would benefit neither the project nor the target audience, and hence causing more harm than usefulness to the project itself, and to steemit/utopian image (even legally this could backfire).
I am sure that is not what you would like to see happen, you know being a steemit-ambassador myself and a utopian supervisor, that's not the image I want to show or have about steemit and utopian :)
We are putting our utmost efforts into making the rules as fair to all, but also making sure to only reward the most valued, otherwise those who truly deserve will not get the reward they should be, and the vote power/reward pool will be abused. Have you seen something similar like this in steemit recently? :)
True, there will be times were good efforts will not be rewarded due to stricter rules, there is no such thing as a perfect system or rules, yet unfortunately that is a difficult situation were we hope won't happen too often.
Utopian rules are a continuous work in progress, and the team is in constant brainstorming about improving them, suggestions are always welcome.