Thank you for you post.
I was have an idea some day before about how to take attention for a newcomers and spread rewards to good one authors who still don't have it.
A agree with your point about findings good articles and collection of they by local group people and local translation.
My idea was in giving a temporal vote power for an group or some users for short time who will make some curation.
But this vote powed for this period will not allow to user vote for himself and upvote more than twice a day same another author. Curation reward can be splitted between "whale" and delegated curator unit.
Also don't allow make power down for delegated curator in this period of time.
By this way lot of local languages issue can be solved also it can help make more uniform distribution attention to good content.

But it's still just idea I has call it "King for a day" and I have no idea is this possible to realize on the platform.
Maybe it will be some multiplier coefficient to existing user power or maybe something like "vote power loan".

Anyway I want to make this platform better as many other people who care not about only they profit. I know some group peoples who discuss about the ways how to make something better there.
But I don't know the way how to bring idea to the developers or powerful persons on Steemit.
I spend a lot of time on rocket chat and open to discuss.