The goal is to encourage manual curation meaning good authors and content providers should be seeing higher rewards. If this happens, the value of Steem will rise via loop of attracting more great authors to the platform and viewers following them with a want to support their favorite authors. We all agree curation isn't working right now? It's not worth it for those with small SP and curiously same applies to whales also it seems.

We have to start asking what those who decide to not join Steemit think and how can we fix it? Main reason probably is that currently we are not rewarding the best content with highest rewards or even trying to find it.