Interesting thoughts - while I think whales have too much Power hence our chain is not really decentralized I think model for porposal voting is not that bad. Ideal scenario we get more whales by people power up but that might just be wishful thinking.
Thanks for taking time to add new approaches.
That's what a lot of smaller accounts try to do but they can never compensate the gap with the biggest accounts because just with curation rewards they accumulate a lot of hive...
exactly hence you need support by the big boys :-)