The argument is that Curie is just "draining the reward pool", while the rewards would be better allocated to authors making posts. Some people are upset / angry about this, and we would rather not upset people if an alternative solution can be worked out. Of course, you make a fair point that 100% of the rewards (including SP as @curie is powering down) are actually redistributed to the most engaged people in the community for their hard work. I suppose it's easy to take a myopic view - see an account trending every day and get upset. Nevertheless, we wish to focus on rewarding and retaining new authors on Steemit, and would prefer to respect naysayers if they leave us in peace.
It's true that there's a curation rewards pool built in, and the ideal solution would be the curation guilds feature which I presume will direct a portion of rewards directly to the curation guild. But that's for the long term - we are looking for feedback for the short term. Thanks a lot :)
If Curie were keeping the money then the argument about draining the reward pool would have some validity. But that isn't what is occurring. I remember how it was before Curie started. The little guys had no hope then, except perhaps luck. Curie has created a path for dedicated users to get going and try to establish themselves. This isn't the Sports channels, I see this as completely different. Anyway, I've made my point. In my opinion there is no need to decline.