I have mixed feelings. I think the best thing for Hive (other than more apps) is good quality content. If you choose to withdraw your earnings then that's your decision. Hive's biggest selling point, at least the social media aspect, is that you get paid to post. Kind of worthless if you can't do anything with it. If good authors are "punished" just because of they choose to do something else with what they earn here, then that will just push more people away. Now how many quality authors routinely power down is a question I can't answer.

On the other hand, I appreciate those who support the ecosystem by keeping most of their hive powered up or otherwise invested in the ecosystem and think this is important for the value of hive.

I take sort of a middle road. My strategy has been to upvote the content that I like to encourage more of the same. However, I will typically give lower value votes to those that power down.