I have been reading comments at this post for over half an hour now and all I can see is people actually talking to each other, proposing ideas, fighting and clarifying their intentions.But if you look at the bigger picture this all show hundreds of people who actually care about what will happen to this platform even if they keep saying "I am powering down" etc.That's a good thing in my eyes.

I will not propose anything cause I suck at these things, I create content and trying to run a healthy community in here.
The only thing I want to mention is that if rewards for curators drop to 50/50 we MIGHT be able to see a more healthy upvote model for Steem BUT this will most definitely hurt new accounts.
We need communities that will support the minnows when they join the platform.Real communities run by real people and of course we need whales to wake up and start manual curation with a 50/50 model.