It's not something that is going away, and in fact, as more and more people arrive in Steemit, this trend will only increase. There are just not enough spots for the amount of blog posts that are being generated. That is a fact.
If a 3k or 5k post got a 1k reduction, that 1k could be used for 100 writers getting 10$ each. It would be better than zero (discouragement). There's a lot of votes piling upon the multi-hundred dollar pieces and the game theory behind it doesn't make much sense because the curation rewards for this are not that much.