Thank you for putting this together.
I came across a shit of a post by a whale that bragged about all the money he was making "curating" which he described as watching numbers and not reading a thing. His post made in excess of $70. I was afraid to downvote it, despite it's being a total piece of shit, because I feared retribution. So you've got that right.
And I am suddenly getting downvotes for no reason at all! They have not harmed me financially at all, but they are a bummer!
I am against downvotes of any kind. It has introduced a kind of violence that I do not want in my life on steem.
And I can think of a shortcoming that compromises "the Central Premise that: "Content Shall Be Compensated Commensurate With Its Quality." and that is the upvote curve. If a post is not making anything, say $.01, my 100% upvote is worth far less than it would be were I upvoting a post that will make over $20. Even at $20 though, my upvote is still not "buying" what it should be. So a newbie posting great content would likely earn nothing at all, unless a Big happens by and slaps them.