My first impressions are that what we lost in SPS funding has been gained back by community down voting. We'll see if this lasts...
Even prior to any downvoting when the changes went live, there was little to no change on my posts. (I took a screen shot prior for a comparison)
A Resteem in my feed went from $80 to $100 though.
Promising as far as curation:
My open posts dropped about 20% as did most with small payouts. The posts with big payouts increased.