Hell yes. Oh poor us, we wouldn't want reality to set in so we can properly navigate reality at all... nah...let's just make people "Feel-good" so they can delude themselves and keep going into something they aren't good at! Double-plus good!
I hope Steemit doesn't go that route. There are no measures for how to reward anyone, and some "equal" distribution ideas are popping up it seems... everyone deserves a reward for posting LMAO.
I'm a newcomer to Steemit so I won't get too vocal about that till I feel better informed... but I'm all in favor of a quality/merit based curation system, even if that will still be somewhat subjective. IF, of course, the true objective of Steemit is to create something of lasting value. But that's for a different discussion...