If I hold Steem Power and I don't want to curate, why shouldn't I have the right to allocate it any way I want to?

Because doing so takes money out of my hand.
Steem is a commons.
Some folks have enough stake to make steem unattractive to everybody else.
That is what they have been doing literally for years, now.
Why you are victim shaming us?

Nobody is worried about @whatsup using her stake as she sees fit, but who is going to buy in to give @ned more?
I contend that the price gives us that answer.
Until ned slakes his greed, we are a shitcoin.
A penny stock.
Maybe we rise from the ashes, maybe the wind blows us away.