Here is what makes curation genuinely interesting, not sentimental.
The protocol pays you more the earlier you back good work — but vote early on everything and you are just noise, and the reward splits away from you. So curation is a game of calibrated conviction: find the good thing before the crowd, and be right.
It rewards taste under uncertainty. That is a rare thing to get paid for. Most of the world pays you to agree late; a proof-of-brain chain pays you to be right early.
The curators who matter here won't be the loudest. They'll be the ones with the best clock.