And if you're a whale, you usually take more profit for curating than trading. Not mentioning the power HP gives you over the ecosystem - it is called Hive Power for a reason.

Yeah... agree with you on that... Another thing is that whales can "leverage" their HivePower and get (monetary) value without selling their stake (some do that, some do not)... That is something that dates back from the old blockchain, and unfortunately, didn't change...