It's true that established authors can become very 'sticky' but this is also true for all other platforms.

So because you can't figure out how to improve the situation you want to double down on it?

It can incentivize people to build a long term reputation.

And it can incentivize giving up if it looks like becoming successful is an extreme long shot.

at some point you'll likely lose more due to the 15 minute curation tax timer than if you were to seek out less established authors with appealing content

The current proposal doesn't change the 15 minute thing, so whatever effect you think it has should already be in effect, no? Also, in response to someone else in the thread you said:

The 15 minute curation tax timer are one of many other secondary issues that deserve another look at, but they're not what I call core economic issues, that is I don't believe they'll materially affect the content indifferent voting behavior problem we have

So which is it, it doesn't have an effect or it's the solution to the problem?