I would at least like for some small tweaks that could probably be done on the front ends to help newer content creators.

To encourage trending author turnover, trending should not be based on payout, but other metrics such as lifetime payout, reputation, average recent post payout, etc that make it harder for established authors to keep reaching trending. For instance, if an author has a trail that gives them $50 no matter what they write, they should not get trending for a $51 post. Now if their post is worth $75 (1.5X their average post), that might be trend worthy. The most well known authors don’t need to be on trending anyway. We all see @blocktrades posts, etc.

Maybe there would be a payout based category so people can still find the top earners.

We need to have content creator turnover and hive influencers should not overshadow new authors. It would be like Kim Kardashian constantly trending. That would be counterproductive and unnecessary. That is the world be live in at the moment.