Thanks for your explanation. This is exactly what I don't like.
If we want to be a bit more like Reddit, where people can come back a read a nice piece that was well written for whatever reason. On Steemit, it will be: post, make people read for 7 days then throw that article to oblivion. This means never look back at what was said on the blockchain, just focus on the now or the future.
That's not how I want to interact here.
I think it is ok that people could always return to come and read and comment, but expecting it to be paid, I think that's another whole thing.
However, if curation rewards are something that is "not from post" and maybe someone read your old post and you reply and get upvoted, you could receive curation rewards instead of some-what royalty fees
Then you have someone like me that comes along looking for the reason why I can't resteem an old article about Guccifer2.0's digital fingerprints on the West Coast, but was actually found to be on the East Coast, & then possibly in Russia, or then possibly not in Russia..& now that we have Dougan that has come forward as being the first person to meet with Seth Rich before escaping to Russia, etc... <---That's a good example of an old article that should be resteemed, because it's current news again now that we have a new player (Dougan) in the story. And here I am at another article wishing I could resteem it's explanation of why we don't have the ability to resteem old posts. So that's 2 people missing out on upvotes/royalties/earnings.