As you said, it's not very surprising to see so many translators in the top 50 list. They have beneficiaries set to @utopian.pay by default, so their voting weight is also higher. Also cool to see @emrebeyler topping the development contributors amongst quite a lot of VIPO members who receive an additional bonus.
Thanks. However, I got a %100 utopian-io upvote as a prize of the hackathon. This gave me a boost. Also contributions of @stoodkev, @steem-plus may be counted as one for a healthy comparison.
There are a few instances of separate developer / project accounts across the different categories. I thought about adding them together but I don't know enough about who does the actual work for the projects to make any decision. Leaving it "as is" was also less work on the end results.
I think that the distribution of rewards is actually a pretty good shape. No user is miles ahead. There's a good spread with a large number of users are getting some very solid rewards. I'll draw up the distribution at some point to illustrate. My guess is that it compares favourably with that of Steemit as a whole.