It’s the move from 50% curation + quadratic rewards to 25% curation + linear rewards that is destroying the platform. It’s also much easier to trade and exchange votes 1:1 now with easy to price votes like I can sell you a 10 dollar vote for 8 bucks now, etc which is the heart of the bidbot economy - stability and predictability. Our current equilibrium is 80:20 rewards ratio between non-curation vs curation.
I’m still pushing for 50% curation + n^1.3 rewards + low % downvote pool to inch us closer to the 50:50 rewards ratio between non-curation vs curation so both kinds of activities are economically competitive. Just give stakeholders enough returns upon an agreeable vote and more will just use their SP for curation.