Down votes don't make the rich richer,
Please explain how downvotes help the small fish raking in less than 20 steem pending payouts?
...they give the power to reallocate to those who could be more deserving,
Please explain exactly how you distinguish "more deserving" from "top-earners"?
I don't really want to go into it again, but where votes go matters. Downvotes too.
You seem to focus on the larger accounts, take a look around. 20% of the active accounts on Steem take 80% of the Steem from the pool. But, those 20% aren't the largest accounts on Steem, but the largest accounts help support them. But, many of those accounts are growing and they are spreading out further - earning on and supporting niche content on tribes and in the platform. I have been here a long time, I have seen many people benefit from the goodwill of others, even at times where those others could have raped the system like some did.
You focus on whatever you think is important, it doesn't mean it is important to anyone else - or necessary.
My "focus" is on trying to keep the vigilantes from running off all the newbz.
The more people we can convince, "steem is a fair system", the more people will BUY IN.