I have no problem with more power being given to people who invest in the platform (i.e. via Steem Power). They deserve it in a way for allocating their resources to the platform.
The crux of the issue for me is that curators and content creators also invest resources in the platform and they often get a very slow start. An introduceyourself post may get a bit payout or if they know some whales they might get big votes for posts, but this is not always the case and curation rewards are very low. How can this situation be improved? or is it something that will become less of an issue with scale on the platform?
The slow start isn't even the problem. Building a following as a content creator always takes time.
Well said that curators and content creators also invest in the platform! At this moment the main problem lays with curating as i described in this and some of my previous articles.
I gave 1 solution to the problem in the referenced article i wrote before this one. That would be a great start, but many more small tweaks can be done, they probably just don't know how yet :)