@roleerob I'm mostly a nobody and I can't speak for everyone else either but since Hf21/22 I have had some successful posts, one of which made it to the bottom part of trending organically from bid bots turned manual curators(I do not bid for votes so this was of their own choosing) and bigger SP holders doing manual curation along with various well established curation teams and new ones created after the fork. As far as the 50/50 split, I earn better curation because I transfer all my rewards into SP as I go along and definitely see a big difference in that department. I'm not saying the system is perfect but the community effort is visible and it is my personal belief based on my experience that things have gotten better since the last fork.