Honestly I am not sure how this will play out for team minnow like myself ;)
My habits will surely not change.. As yu I also have some trails going on, this is also mostly so my votes dont go to waste but get used and its feels good doing that. I dont know maybe the curation awards will pick up after this but I can not imagine that this will actually do something that is actually 'worth it' for me.
So i will stick to my trails and vote manually on everything that I see popping by and I find cool!