Can't say I'm for it. I like a proposal by @dragosroua with witnesses having control of the multiplier on how much is going to authors and curation. Good luck getting the math there :)

https://steemit.com/steemit/@dragosroua/the-fuckup-files-experiment-ending-it-and-final-conclusions

You have a point, the current curve should support trending posts more, and that is why we were getting posts making 1k for the first 10 ones than 100 and then 20 for the rest. A linear curve with the same votes would give probably around 500, 300, 100

I'm not sure steemit will change it since this is the main reason for the fork, there has to be at least 40% agreement, I remember last fork when there were around 80% of witnesses against the comment reward pool. We didn't get one :) I didn't like it either, but I didn't like the 7day payout either, well I can live with that for simplicity's sake.