we've been meaning to reduce it and maybe give some new (or old) ones a try.
I'm sure there's some old curators around who would be happy to come back.
in that regard I don't see how it could be abused if some authors prefer attention over rewards for certain posts but with the low user activity today I don't see many craving the attention neither.
That's a good point, the likeliness is low and wouldn't slip by the community if it started happening.
After all these years I am still of the mind that Hive is going to mass onboard and become a mainstream thing within the next 2-7 years. It might happen sooner, but time goes quickly when you're not thinking about it.
I see OCD as instrumental in the adoption and onboarding.