The reason there is an issue, is because of rewards, not voting. It's the perceived "unfair reward scheme" associated with voting. That's what bothers people. Get rid of the rewards, and then people having more voting power wouldn't matter very much at all. People have expectations through comparative assessment with others. Then reality doesn't work like their misconception believed, and they get frustrated and leave. It takes time to post and get recognized.

If users took the time to understand how this platform works, then maybe they would stay. I did. I learned how Steemit functioned by going to search and read up on things. People are very lazy in the social media short-attention span field, so that seems like a "demanding" requirement for some. They want to stick to their false implicit correspondence to existing platforms, and assume and expect things to function the same way.

Steemit is something new, and has it's own way of operating. Money changes everything. People who have a stake in shares (SP) have the power. To incentivise holding the token as a share (STEEM->SP), it holds the power in the system. If we created a new rep token, then the investment side and their influence would be greatly affected. That's not good for a monetary model system like Steemit is.