I guess I haven't really been able to clearly see how reduced author rewards in any way does not penalize content creators? Most of the content creators I know are saying AFTER HF21, it will be much easier to simply spend their time, Auto-upvoting Haejin, with more rewards than it is to create posts.

I cant see how increasing curation at NO cost to anyone else, will not drive content creators away? I see plenty saying this will encourage more quality, but I don't see how.