I'll be honest, I wish they made curating more rewarding. I stay true to using steem voter to follow my favorite creators and read each post that steemvoter voted on. This way, if I grow tired of the articles or see them going down I quit having the autovote go to them. If I like the article I comment and upvote my comment fully to reward the post even more.
I know curating is paid less because there is probably a lot of abuse such as these paid bots getting paid curating rewards as well as paid for voting. This platform has so much potential and I hope it will grow to its potential than fail due to short term gains.