most curators out there who are curating content for the content and not attempting to maximize their rewards, are losing out to those who are doing the opposite.
Something that is created so wrong in code and trying to fix with external app and downvotes does not look cool idea at all to me?
Why not fix the code to linear rewards when everyone spotted that current curation scheme is getting played on?
Hardforks require a lot of testing, etc, so at the same time this could be something we could test to see the effects of it and maybe if it shows great results a slider could be added in a future hardfork that allows authors to set their own curation cut however they want.
Linear rewards was something that has been tested for years, and it can be implemented easily.