LOL! Good old days! If I remember correctly, your post had less than 1K USD when I upvoted and resteemed it. But by day 7, it was over 21K USD! Or am I wrong? :P You also received a bunch of liquid donations. What a blessing it was :D To be fair though, I think these changes are good. Incentivizing curators more than the authors will be even better because stakeholders can then make more by simply curating good content than trying to sell upvotes or self-upvote!