I have come to accept that the problem of disagreements and abuses on the network are diluted by having more people involved and by having governance decentralized more than it currently is.
This is what we need to work towards. At the moment one whale can nuke almost anything but if we had a few million users with medium stakes then voting would be a lot more reflective of community ideals.
A post might get 10 medium downvotes but 5000 medium upvotes and have a fair reflection of it's true value. As opposes to now where it might have hundreds of tiny upvotes from users but one large vote cancels all rewards and turn off that individual.
The same goes for witnesses and community votes.
Yes and as the community/network becomes more alluring to power users, there will be a wider variety of whales engaging too.. Though there is no guarantee that this will help any sub-group out in particular. Ultimately, as you say, a larger number of smaller users participating in curation and becoming active to cause balance will certainly help.
I suspect there may be a language barrier to this at present too, with English speaking accounts having a different experience to other language speaking accounts.