This is indeed an alarming trend. The main stumbling block for manual curation is discovery. We don't know what we don't know and it is very tedious to dive through all the new posts to look for gems.
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Yes, I completely agree with you, @culgin. Curating is very difficult work and not everyone want to do it. This is why these two posts can help to at least get bigger accounts voting for something that can help STEEM in general.
Whale Tip! Vote for Pre-Curated STEEM Posts
Whale Tip! How to Curate Contests on STEEM and Help Small Bloggers Grow
Also, yesterday I wrote a post about how I do tipu curating which might give some good ideas.
My @tipu Curator Tale - How I Find Your Post
But no matter what, it is work.
This is why I recommend some auto-voting for contest posts and other things you might want to see continue. Then do manual votes for some other portion of your day.
Or find a few small bloggers you like and auto-vote a post a day. Change it up each month or so. There are a lot of ways to do this. I need to write more posts on it...