You're a deep thinker my friend, I really appreciate hearing from you.
On the content filtering and sorting, I so much agree. That is what started @introbot. I plan to have additional bots that attack other tags, but they will not make a dent if Steemians do not have a wiliness to look at the big picture. Quality articles, properly curated and categorized has immense value. Remove any one of these and you have chaos.
Perhaps your team at MSP will find some ways to educate or even provide a new front end that helps people make better choices as they post and curate.
Its a big task trying fight against the rising influence of money, so we need to find a way to let the money tide lift everyone equally as it should.
Yup, some of the best movies found greed as their theme, pretty much sums up our treasures.