Yeah I don't have a great solution to the curation situation. It's an interesting one that's for sure.
Is the problem with curation rewards that some people are getting way too much? I've seen very large accounts that are getting 10-100 SP just from curation rewards, which is far far too high in my opinion. There really should be a cap or something on the potential reward.
As someone with ~7k SP, if I find and vote something 3 hours earlier than a whale, there's no reason they should get 100x the rewards that I get.