Great post, totally agree with all the points :) Also I hope that when users will see additional, liquid rewards from curation, it will encourage them to power up to maximize those rewards.

What could be introduced in the future is a list of accounts using the service, percentage of curation added and pending payouts, this would allow people an opportunity to negotiate the value of the post with downvotes and return that value to the pool, which means from both author and curator.

Yep, there's definitely gonna be a list of posts that used the service so people can review them. Something like https://tipu.online/hive_recent_curations