I’ve learned to pretty much not care about rewards on a day to day basis. And to instead think long term. Partly because I have a fair amount of Steem Power. If Steem crashes and burns, it won’t matter if I had gotten lots of big upvotes or none at all. If Stem moons, I’ll do just fine with what I’ve got, even if I never earn another Steem from the reward pool ever again. Granted, too many people focus on the reward pool. With circa 8% inflation and only 3/4 of that going to rewards, fixating on the new 6% of Steem being created in a year is misplaced concerned. For what it’s worth though, I think you’re grossly underestimating the potential for SMT’s and their possibilities for tokenizing the intertubes.