Agreed with everything but this
(I believe Linear, despite all its advantages, is the predominant cause of this)
My take on the curve https://steemit.com/steem/@snowflake/reward-curve-doesn-t-discourage-self-voting
I think what messed up incentives was to reduce votes per day from 40 to 10. This was a very good measure to prevent self voting as self voters needed to put out 4 times more content than now. This is why haejin is posting 10 times a day, put votes back to 40 and he will have to post 4 times more content to maximize self vote.
https://steemit.com/steem/@snowflake/history-is-a-great-teacher
RE: Embracing Linear Equality on Steem: Unlearning the Sucker & Maximising the Arsehole in Me