I find the idea that everything needs to be curated as a bad.

For one, you've got a small select group of people deciding what you can/cannot buy based on what they think is allowed/not allowed. Out of the millions of people that use the storefront, a good chunk would end up being alienated thanks to the small curator group's idea of what is good/bad.

For another you have that curation group possibly allowing what is deemed as garbage from another group onto the storefront. This in turn would annoy that group for quite some time, if not indefinitely. Valve has already pointed out that they have not only seen people being upset when one thing changes, but that other groups voice the same displeasure when things are reversed. They know there is no winning, no making everyone happy, not even their internal staff, who have previously voiced conflicts with one another. 

This decision is ultimately for the best. They only have two core rules to go by, while at the same time developing more tools for users to make use of in terms of filtering what they would like to see/not see from the storefront. All without harming each other's wants/not wants on the storefront itself. 

What could go wrong?

Don't they already do this anyway?

Good. People are already complaining about shoverware, so this shouldn't drastically change the situation in that sense. However, it this gets us better tools to find the interesting games, all players should win here.

Jim Sterling is going to have a ball with this one. I don't care too much personally, I only go on Steam to buy games I already know about. I never browser through the huge amounts of shit in their store, I go straight to what I want.

Jesus they're... they're going to "police less"? It's has devolved into the equivalent of those mobile app stores at this point.

Seriously, there's been damn near zero policing to this point... and here I thought that game about shooting up your fellow classmates would finally urge them to engage in a little curating for once, not less. I think the only thing I've heard that were denied were some visialnovels that looked pretty darn close to essentially peddling pedophilia.

I don't get the issue really; steam is a money factory, and yet they always whine as if it is impossible to hire the manpower to look into these games ahead of time.

This is honestly how I've almost always gone with in my life. I know what I want to look for and set about finding it, rather than going "what do I want?" and scouring the store aimlessly for something. 

This is exactly the opposite direction i wanted Steam to go.. quality over quantity should be there way of thinking.

The worst of all is that half-decent policing the store could be done by a dozen people if needed.

I think this is a good thing for detecting asset flips. They could relocate resources to tracking down asset flippers now.