All I can say is as a large Steem holder - I prefer to upvote content creators and receive something back, as I know this action will encourage more and better content. Pre this HF it was pointless as my 10cents worth was worth nothing compared to a paid upvote bot was giving the less quality posts.

I'm not 100% sold yet, I certainly not getting as much through curation yet as I was in delegating to the most ethical groups I could find...but I don't mind getting a little less back, if it means the platform is going to grow and ultimately the Steem $ is going to lift. I'd be interest to hear in a couple of weeks you verdict on the effect from a regular content creators point of view? I'm still trying to decide myself...but yeah the curation is better and promoting better practice I reckon...still we have to see what tricks people try to do to self gain for max effect, vs. take an attidute of help the platform, help yourself...which is what we should all be doing.

I hope those DApp creators get tweaking and come back up for you...As a hobby programmer myself I can't see any challenge that should stop them, but yeah havent investigated in depth.

Cheers