I consider this change a huge waste of time honestly from a "change" point of view, but for discussion i think its important. Curators and curator whales rarely, if ever, hear the creator point of view so they assume that they will not be challenged by those who "depend on them".. They forget that its a mutual dependency when they start chasing higher ROI for themselves.
Without curators there would be content, but without creators, the curators have no ROI.
Writing and making videos for free is nothing new. (this ofc is an oversimplification of the issue which is why the long post.)
I'm wondering if it was for the drama effect, or a let me throw these against a wall and see what sticks. People seem to be concentrating on the 50/50 part, very little talk of the downvote reward pool and separating it out of vote power. The whole post seemed like everything in it was to get people to stop posting. When you look at it as a whole.