We considered proposing a move from the n^2 curve [...]
A modification could be good, but there are game theoretic challenges that haven’t been fully modeled.

Wow, it must be very complicated. How about this challenge: people having double your steem power now have four times your voting power, and this will be still true after fork. Correct?

I would like linear curve or, even better, logaritmic. Not quadratic for sure.