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RE: Steemit Feature Request: We need to have a "Dislike" button separate from "Flags" for better online interactions (According to Game design Wisdom)
Another problem is that curating doesnt just incentivize people to push the best content to the top; the current curation reward system motivates people to quickly bet on what they think will be popular, by bandwagoning after they see critical mass instead of actually reading the post - - often they just participate in the snowball effect and hope others will too. It keeps the largest accounts in top circulation.
Most of the kind of content you mention belong to people who already have high value self-upvotes or people who are on auto-vote lists of other whales. To earn significant curation, one has to vote before other big votes come in. Some people just blindly vote popular accounts but it's not very effective strategy. The upcoming Hivemind feature should solve this problem to some extent.
https://github.com/steemit/hivemind