I appreciate your efforts on the lazy curation problem, and I use the KE as a rough guidance.
However I don´t have a solution for the oligarchy problem. We see this also in the real economy, there is a tendency of companies to become larger and larger, like how Amazon started and where they are right now. Same with the Hive accumulation, a huge share of it is unfortunately concentrated among 10 or so super large accounts (plus their alts), they control who is the top 20 and the DHF as well.