You can use a front end that doesn't display this information or you can use one that shows you it. The social problems cannot be solved by hiding it in one particular front end. Even if you hide in all public front ends, a user can use the API to see who has the most money. The blockchain needs this information unless we radically change the Hive blockchain to be like Monero or to be like ZCash.
Have you seen my proposal? I would like to make into a full DHF proposal but I really didn't get enough votes on the post to indicate that whales are for it. How can I improve it?