EDIT2: It looks like Steemit is completely broken, minnowpond&1 looked like as if they downvoted your comment but one refresh shows now that they're upvoted. R.I.P Steemit.
I agree, curie alone can't fix the crazy amount of good posts and fresh authors.
We need a fix, fast otherwise many great author will lose interest in Steemit / pushing its value down.

The problem though is that many posts especially fresh author ones are copy & paste or one picture posts with no text / effort.