This is why I have proposed eliminating curation rewards altogether. I have also proposed delinking VP from SP, and instead weighting VP with reputation that is actual community vetting.
It isn't stake-weighting that draws people to Steemit, but rewards. Stake-weighting was intended to incentivize investors to use SP to direct content development, but instead it has merely become a vector for financial manipulation.
Coupled with a mechanism that precludes bots, Steemit would be truly a social media platform - but investors would be offered only the incentive of capital gains by which to profit from their stake.
Those with the stake prefer the immediate returns gamification of rewards provide, and content be damned.
No. There's no need to broke the whole economy to eliminate curation bots.
If you think this economy isn't broken now, you have no idea what you are talking about.
It would be hard to make it worse, it's so broken.
I'm pretty sure it can be worse )
It can be worse - but not much. 93% of Steem is concentrated in 1% of accounts. It would actually be difficult to more concentrate Steem than that.