i agree low prices will aid quality of content and discovery but on their being more vest to go around normally this is the case but due to the amount of whales powering down its reducing vests POS system's rewards are calculated by the total amount staked.

Also with the amount of whales powering down it would be a poor decision to buy into a market when at least 500k Steem will be powered down this week and most likely sold the best time to buy would be after whales sell