What are your thoughts for some practical uses for SP?

Hopefully they will increase the curation rewards sooner rather than later. I feel like Steemit, inc removed the page views partly because there were more upvotes on a post than page views, which should not make sense. With the curation trails and bid bots though this has come about.

I have not looked through the trending page in ages because it seems like it is the same authors or whoever bids the most with a bid bot.