I confess to finding myself cross eyed with those numbers, Asher, but those trendlines are very interesting.
What I do know, from my own experience is that the demise of bid bots had had a positive impact on my rewards. My account is minuscule so curation brings little return. For one of my #spud posts at the end of last year, I did a very unscientific analysis of my rewards and there is a definite uptick post EIP. And I'm posting less. I think I'm commenting and upvoting as much, but am more considered and selective of whom I upvote and where I comment. Some of it is because I am no longer in a community that compels me to use some of my upvotes on posts I'd never other wise consider supporting. Nor do I have to respond to comments that are required by the Ts and Cs and, by and large, superficial and inane.