Voting power is a limited resource for everyone and it would make far more sense if curangel spent their voting power on upvotes. You are curating content? Rewarding good stuff? So reward them.
The fact that they are spending so much of their voting power and time on downvotes suggest that their activities are motivated by frustration, not curation. I have removed my vote for @pharesim witness (who is apparently behind the curangel project).
RE: The gatekeeping in Ecency