I get where you're coming from. I suppose (based on your own observations), it may not matter too much in direct return when either going for LP or LP... I always thought LP = Leo Power, you use it for Liquidity Pooling LOL
Regarding the manual curation: This could very well be more or less temporary. I do hope LEO get (more) manual curation teams when the community grows. Would be good when stakeholders (including the large ones) aiming for auto voting, use these services to provide them with more power and be sure their votes are used to distribute more dynamically then p2p auto voting does.