Testing something out. I'm just going to say a couple of things once and intelligent people should understand what is going on:

• Steemit has chosen to reward popularity. People are rewarded for voting as fast and mindlessly as possible in already well known topics or authors.
• Steemit routinely props up and concentrates as much money as possible in one author to demonstrate that you can live of it "easily". The front page features the same articles day after day, all of them highly payed. That feeds back into the voting pressures creating stronger and stronger "showcases".
• The section dedicated to posts saying "Hi everyone, I am me" is the most well payed section by far on Steemit. So easy.
• Concentration of voting power generates forced allegiances in hopes of benefaction and dissuades criticism in fear of retaliation.
• Only source of positive money flow is market capitalisation increase. Everyone else "receives" money. Creating an account, making a post, voting, witnessing, mining, keeping your SP still. All actions are money faucets, there are no sinks other than the caused inflation.
• This post will likely be downvoted because anything that does not make Steemit look the most amazing thing ever goes against the vested monetary interests of its participants.

I'm not sure Steemit curation has any "problems". I think they are very likely features by design.