One of the main characteristics curation guilds focus on is "steemit original content", which means that even though an article posted on steemit belongs to the author, if it was posted somewhere else first, then it is not eligible for curation.
If the same happens in other platforms, this means that original content won´t be curated in more than one platform - the one that its posted first.
The problem here is, just like with bidbots (but squared), the original content will get scraps and the abusive/circle jerking/bidbot using content will get a bigger share of the pie because, as we´ve seen, curation guilds have a list of rules for curating, abuse has one or two rules...
I think we will see abuse grow to a higher level once the new platforms arrive, a cross platform abuse if you may. But as you said, we are humans.
A lot of people believe that the new platforms will be an utopia. I think, as they will be ran by humans and used by humans, the abuse will come in many different ways, even if the new platforms find a way to "stop" the abuse that is happening on steemit, a new form of abuse will be born. We are humans, we find flaws and we explode them and these new platforms won´t be safe from our human nature.
It is a strange world we live in when original is undervalued as normally it is the knockoffs and mass produced that have low status.
I think this too. Every piece of code has flaws and humanity is coded to maximise, even if it costs others they rely on. the evolution of human is moving towards us being able to hack our own code, those who are incapable of self control are those who are yet to evolve.