That is what already happens. We get the ones the whales voted for in active, trending and popular. The other way we interact with steemit is we search for pearls in the dirt, as it were by looking in the new(created) category.
Now, to me, in both ways of interacting we miss a lot of great posts. There are too many for the whales to curate from new. That's why there are bots curating.

We are back to the book store. We have a list of favorite authors and we buy books from them. The curation system is broken because it comes from the top.

I think there a enough newbies to curate content for the user level accounts. As a user level account myself(10-100 steem), I would like to see a newbie approved new category. Which have been approved by users that have between 1 and 10 steem. Amoung other users I can read the favorites of the newbies(1-10 steem), assuming I have time for that. Those that have over 100 steem power can look at posts voted up by users like me. Continuing in this way, posts will actually be read before they got into trending.

Generally this kind of approach can be done with instead voting power, or reputation. The plaform is new but whales don't scale
Rather than the steem power of users this could be instead the maount of voting power behind the posts or the reputation of the