I hope you agree with me that quality is subjective, otherwise it's hard to continue our discussion.
We had other problems before HF19 too. Unbudging trending page, minnows making next to nothing unless whalevote.
of all my time prior to HF19, i never seen the possibility of a minnow gaining the limelight despite making Youtuber quality content. Minnow's only shot at making was either rubbing a whale belly or getting noticed by Curie.
It'll never be perfect i think. people will always complain no matter what and however steem is designed, there will always be ways to game it. Even so i'm steadfast in saying HF19 brings greater good than evil.
Yes, quality is subjective.
With SMTs on the way, and Dan building a competitor on EOS, not to mention any forks of either, I'm sure we'll get plenty of opportunity to see all sorts of different settings play out in reality.
For example, Ned appears to be making account level voting an option for SMT's and/or quadratic rewards.
Those who lean toward fairness (whatever that is) can launch an SMT with account voting and linear rewards, and those who lean toward quality can have stake weighted voting and quadratic rewards.
Then we can race our preferences against each other and you'll get to see how right I am ;p