Super! Although introducing more randomness doesn't mean good content will be more rewarded, the removal of TRENDING and HOT channels ill at least take easy routes away to reward those posts that generally end up in these channels. In the end, human manual curation and responsible rewarding, is required for good content to be rewarded. While self voting services (all the vote buy services for instance) are counterproductive to valuing good content; But that is a hole different topic :)