I think you're right, since the daily inflation is the same regardless of number/weight of votes.
https://inleo.io/threads/view/anderssinho/re-simplegame-2vhpthraw?referral=anderssinho
I'm also really missing more larger accounts actively curating Threads and Shorts in particular. It also appears that many bigger accounts still are strangely hesitant that to give any significant kind of votes to threads/shortform. The sentiment that short-form content somehow has has lower value than longform has gotten a lot better, but still a way to go. I myself spend most of my VP on threads.