. So incentivizing good curation (for example by settings the rewards at 50/50 split) would be a natural way to reduce the amount of low quality posts and promote good curation.
This would definitely be one of the hopes. There are always unknown side-effects (good and bad) of changes to the way things work but, it doesn't mean that change is bad.
I agree. The platform definitely supports people to try a range of things out with very little downside but plenty of up. The return on the platform is asymmetrical and factoring in future value of Steem, it could prove very lucrative too.