The answer, as many good UX designer might tell you, is that 'it depends'. I don't doubt that many people have found their steemit journey much easier and more enjoyable after spending more time on Discord in the various teams/groups, but some people don't interact in that way and therefore shouldn't be excluded(or disadvantaged) from the experience of content creation or curation simply because they prefer to go at it alone.

At the end of the day, it is important to define the problem you want to solve in order that an optimal solution can be proposed. Whales curating assumes that people with most voting influence knows quality content from profitable ones (sound like a senior manager at a company?), dolphins creating assumes that people who have been around a bit continues to create valuable content and have incentives to do so, and minnows commenting assumes that people new to the platform contribute best by learning rather than doing. Some of these assumptions may be true and some not... it just depends on what you see and what you think the problems are.

So where does that leave us? I guess that depends on if this makes any sense to you :p