2038 seems a long way away but that is going to be coupled with a decreasing pool (in a few years) and hopefully a massive amount of onboarding to come. There are likely to be sellers remorse on Steem.
Having said that, the autovoters and the entitlement they create could fundamentally change the platform if they occasionally went through and cleaned up their support and instead of supporting extractors, supported investors and community builders. Incentivizing the best behaviours will go a long way in decentivizing the poor.
Plus, it gives those who care about the platform a little more power to raise some flags and do it in numbers. With a healthy and engaged middle class, even large individual whales are easily managed by a pod of dolphins.