To be fair self-voting and curation trails also suck, maybe they aren't the biggest current problems and I could find common ground with you there. But they are hardly a goal to aspire to. For example, curation trails are very wasteful in terms of blockchain usage (resulting in many, many additional vote transactions on the blockchain with little added value in the form of actual curation) when a very similar result could be accomplished by delegating to a successful curator and the curator sharing some of the curation rewards with delegators periodically (especially if curation rewards weren't tiny).