I think the curators take huge risks staking Hive. It's an altcoin, and being a crypto it's highly volatile. On the upside and downside.
So we should be rewarding those who are staking. As they do not need to hold Hive but they choose to. And because of that I think keeping it as it is now is how it should be.
It's great to have good content creators, but without the curators we have no upvotes.. and changing it to benefit authors more may cause curators to leave. Or discourage new ones from powering up.
If authors want higher payouts.. they need to wait for Hive to go up in value.. not changing how the reward system works.. imo