All these guys who are exploiting the rewards by not curating true quality content. Maybe we'll have a dapp someday to help rate everyone in term of how shady their upvote habits are. Sometimes shady, kinda shady, super shady, pure evil.
I am happy to have groups that actively seek to rebalance the imbalance. It gets scary when the biggest exploiters become more powerful in counter-retaliation efforts.
My hope is to have more leaders who can rally people by saying things like "If X percent of users delegate X percent of their SP, I can effectively improve reward pool distribution by Y so W percent less goes to ultra shady folks, and Z percent more rewards goes out to less shady folks."
Give it a few years. An Oracle / Manual curation token type deal will appear. Years of voting habits will be assessed, and the folks that never gave posting authority to any voting services, or never showed any consistent vote times, will be part of a manual curation group. There wont be many people there, but those that are there will look pretty cool :)
I think this post relates to your final point: https://steemit.com/steemit/@tarazkp/helsing-governance-ideas-good-bad-whales-needed