Extremely important post. I am still 100% onboard with the optional 5% burn to powerdown instantly. It's optional! Whales don't mind dealing with advanced features when they are important, so it won't add to the complexity of Hive as a platform, for the average user.
I think curation should be reworked. 5% to 20% apr is ridiculous, it should be the same for everyone. 1$ upvote 50 cents back, simple as that. Why complicate it with random rules that are supposed to make content discovery better, they only make it worse. People should be able to upvote what they want to upvote, no matter the author, the amount of previous votes, or the expected amount of future votes.
Right now we see people front running each other to vote the same authors before 5 minutes, it's really stupid.