If we need more people with more power to make a difference with their curation votes, then maybe there could be a method by which Steem Power was given to certain curators via a lottery. The more you curate, the better chance you have at winning enough Steem Power to make a difference in voting rewards.
That's an interesting idea. I'm not sure how viable it would be but it is worth exploring.
Yeah. Not being able to program, I couldn't begin to imagine how you'd implement that sort of system, but variables could be brainstormed, like maybe you need a certain reputation score or a certain level of curator activity and then the software itself chooses someone out of a pool of similar users. I think it'd have to be a trustless system and baked into Steem to remove corruption.