yes, but they can lease power for 14% :)
I don't see nothing wrong in increasing average rewards on few hundreds posts from few hundreds authors by 1-2$.
The question is, if that should give best curation rewards. I don't mind losing few % from apr if this can be moved to late voters, by creating less competitive or time dependent environment.
Also there is built in penalize system on timing where voting early decrease curation rewards for voter and also for next voters(as first one get bigger share in rewards and it goes back to the system). It was already used in some voting wars i believe. Point is that in competitive bot environment average voting time should always go towards this barrier and eventually voting popular author becomes less efficient. Maybe there is not enough bots 😅
It's good if manual curators can "discover" good authors, drop initial rewards, so authors can start earning from bots too at some point. Another issue is not enough content probably so votes mostly goes to same people and it makes auto-voting issue very visible.