It is largely because of much of the rest of the list that @burnpost gets a lot of its support.
If reward payouts were efficiently going to true influencers or successful onboarding, those of us supporting burnpost would see a lot less reason to vote that way. But in fact because much of the rewards goes to enrich a few people with little obvious systemic benefit, why not instead take the win in lower inflation?
I've said numerous times that I would prefer to (and sometimes do) vote for truly compelling content and engagement over burnpost, but as long as that isn't what is happening, I proudly support burnpost to help retain investor value for Steem until we successfully revamp, pivot, or organically get our house in order.
RE: Where are the Votes (SP) going?