Btc fees explode in times of high activity, eth too, which makes them unusable for me to send 10usd to my barista.

Hopefully, with 'mass adoption', rc's will come into the mix as rentable tokens.
Splinterlands demonstrates how this would work with their staked sps rental market.

Maybe vsc will break the kneecappening's hold on our rep in the market by adding lots of usability.
And, maybe not.

The top 20 accounts taking 50% of the rewards pool is doing us no favors, imo.
What makes that fact interesting to 1000's of users?
Maybe 200 accounts benefit from this arrangement, but that leaves far more unsatisfied players to hold back our reputation when they explain to their friends the way the hive math works.

Don't get me wrong, a 500mv voting cap on the pool won't free up life changing amounts of hive for the authors and curators, but at least we can say we are trying to make a more horizontal distribution of the power in the hive, rather than concentrate it in hands that already break the game for anybody that diligently does the math.
IF that drives away people with game breaking amounts of stake, so be it, we should have done it years ago, iyam.

Hive will not conquer the world of crypto by making a new power pyramid.
That is the very reason people enter crypto at all, to escape the fiat pyramid scheme.
Yet, here 'we' are, our large stakeholders are trying to replicate the fiat model.

Greedy folks gonna greed.™