Hey Asher!
I agree on the total voting % to contributions - 75% does feel to me like the right sort of level for the 'core' purpose of Utopian and I'd like to see some tweaks to push it back in that direction.
I also think that development is the most important category and hearing that high-scoring development contributions were missing out on rewards is a little bit of a worry - it may discourage devs from engaging with Utopian / Steem. One possible change could be to increase the size of the development bucket (perhaps scaling in proportion to the maximum percentage reward for the category). Alternatively there could be a separate development bucket for Steem projects or VIPO projects or development-task-responses. All of this depends on what the goals / priorities are for Utopian.
I think the upvote timing is good now. Much better than when it was hovering around 6.5 days in any case!
Hey
Yes I didn't like to hear that decent (70+ scored) development contributions were missing out on rewards. Hopefully the recent adjustments stated by Amos can help with that.
Enjoy your weekend, I hear it's going to be a sunny one :)