Curation becomes incredibly more important when payouts are 50/50. Posts rely on it. Steemit is still 75/25 and I like having more rewards for authors because there a lot more work involved. It took me relatively 3 minutes to read your post. How much longer did it take for you to write it?

In any case people will vote by who they know thus tribes.. it's life and may be unfair. That's why it's important to network and make connections. It's the proof of brain portion of this Steem universe (at the moment)..