Thanks for including my thoughts from before HF21. Something I can tell you is that the 50/50 split saw some amazing things happen. For the first time since I'd joined Steem, the whales felt the need to curate in order to get rewards. My average post earnings soared over the months until I would see 8-10 SBD posts several times a week and (until the SteemTron fiasco, anyway) most posts were over 1 SBD. What a huge change!!! So despite my earlier fears, 50/50 turned out to be a great thing! So, keep this!

But we still need to work to move towards a point where authors are rewarded an amount that's appropriate to the time spent. No one (in the Western world) would do a job where their reward was less than a livable wage.) That should be our goal, as a community.

That means bringing in consumers. How, is the major question there - and the 50/50 curation actually started to do some of that.

@trincowski made a really good point on a Discord server... that one of the changes made needs to be in the Witness votes. Simply put - no witness (or their other owned accounts) should be able to cast witness votes. It can stop some of the nonsense we saw with Justin Sun being able to walk in here, cast all his votes and those of his well-paid witness accounts and take over like that...