Indeed. And not just more profitable, off the flipping scale profitable. How can this place work when that is the case?
I've stated before that I'm pro HardFork 17s delegated SP tweak, as it allows projects like utopian-io and dtube to take STEEM forward. But as for Steemit.com itself, it is worrying.
How can we end it without killing delegations to other apps, I do not know but will have a think!
I certainly wouldn't seek to eliminate the ability to delagate. Simply to figure out why exactly it's more profitable to lease a delegation than it is to curate. I'd like to hope there is a way to solve that besides eliminating delegations.
This is down to the 'high' SBD value. STEEM needs to rise, or SBDs need to fall. You receive SP (vested STEEM) for curation, and SBDs for content - which you can then stick a nice self-vote or a bot on!
Ahhh, yes... Thank you for that, because my brain was not computing