Steemit doesn't just need to distribute rewards across more publications. It needs to recognise what makes a community truly active: creativity, quality, participation, and meaningful connections between its members.

I agree with you and of course, the rest you write.

So calculation is:
4000 active accounts per 300 days (active as in posting and commenting or? If auto voting or auto earnings receipt has been enabled an account als shows active!

4000 accounts * 5 posts a week / 30 days = 667 posts a day.

Many posts receive upvotes from bots, whales, steem witnesses next to that there are who only game or comment or the account shows active because they do autovoting.
Also curators skip a large part of the platform where mainly Asians post.

All AC accounts can easily upvote 667 posts if they all were quality, which they are by far not, which leaves room for uovoting comments and reward good comments and content better.

For example, the quality of a photographic publication cannot be evaluated using the same criteria as an opinion article or a literary work. Different forms of creativity deserve different approaches to curation.

True. What to think of art, a painting? This can rarely be made within an hour or a day. Not to mention the time it takes to show all steps, write the content and upload all those photos.
It is way easier to type a long epistel and add an AI generated picture.

You wrote a well-reasoned comment containing all the necessary information. I sincerely hope it will be read, but above all that something will change. Thank you for your comment.