I don't see that much value in curation, voting is something most users do anyway. While I certainly spent 6+ hours a day here spreading votes the last weeks, even my old payout seemed way too high for me regarding the value I think it has for the platform compared to authors. And I'm completely opposed to derive the value of SteemPower from how easy it is to accumulate it. 

I'm afraid we won't find a consensus on that issue, but at least we know each other's expectations and reasons pretty well now :/