This would penalise me quite heavily
And it shouldn't. Also, further apps that might be built on Steem, including shorter form content apps like Steepshot and Zazzl - would this count toward the 4-5 posts? Doesn't seem to align with the more frequent, conversational tone of those apps.
It will favour curation, yes. Whale or not. Everyone seems to want to get whale votes but aren't very interested in them benefiting from providing that vote. People forget that many earned their stake either in the real world, working or by being early adopters but, it generally was earned.
Fair point.
This has no effect whatsoever on alt accounts doing the voting.
Okay, but how does limiting number of posts change this? Just set up alt accounts in both cases...
As I said in the article the limiting of posts doesn't actually work because it has problems but it was included as a thinking area. It doesn't work for a number of reasons including things like zappl. It keeps coming up though because people confuse Steemit with Steem. They have comflicting desires. They want steem to the moon as long as it is on their terms.
What is of interest to think about here though is actually the splitting if the reward pool. But, no one so far has mentioned it. Most likely because they focus on the parts that affect them now.