i do get that there is strong will up top to move social part rewards from lvl 1 and cutting hive rewards to authors and curators and pushing it to HMT tokens (or wherever) and this looks like the first step to it.

It's easy to read too much into a suggestion. I tried to highlight in my post that this was mostly an idea for discussion and that I don't even have a strong opinion about how useful it would actually be.

As it happens, I think one useful idea has emerged from the discussion, which is to consider changing the 5 minute window which favors auto-voting versus manual curation. I need to consider it more, to see if it results in any new problems, and if it's simple enough to implement. It's more than a mere parameter change, but it doesn't seem technically too difficult.

But any suggestion of an economic change usually creates controversy here, to the point where even discussions of a possible change seem to create fear of some sort of conspiracy. I often have the impression that I could argue either side of any economic discussion, and someone would accuse me of trying to stick it to the minnows :-)