true, since right now the commenters are basically the writers too

That is true. But I'm not convinced that the comments would earn much. And less rewards for posts will drive existing members away.

I'd be happy to be proven wrong, since what keeps me hooked on Facebook are the conversations, and right now Steemit is not that social of a social media, but I see potential problems.

Yes, I'm more than willing to give it a shot. There are a lot of people on Facebook who rarely, if ever, make their own posts, but comment on other people's posts frequently. And maybe when outsiders run into Steemit posts, they have a comment in mind they would like to make, and *if* comments are being rewarded in a significant way, they get interested in joining Steemit.

So, I'm not trying to be opposed to change for the sake of.

I'm just skeptical.

But like I said before, more engagement is good. Currently, Steemit attracts content creators, and that is the reason for the lack of comments, since people are mostly occupied with their own content, waiting for the upvotes to come. Most of the people on the internet are content consumers, so there's a huge group of people that Steemit is not drawing to the platform right now.

I guess curation rewards for comments could skew the conversations when comments from certain users would get autovoted every time.

In that sense, I agree with the changes.

I will take a wait and see approach. But I'm reserved.