I see it similarly.
At the end, the poster can decide to use an address that creates zap notes, or not. But if you don't show your zaps, you might cut off further reach based on high zap count.
Also would be interesting to only show average zap count. Which does not leak how many zaps happened, only the size of the average.
Although I think for Value4Value economy, we have to do a mind shift, which is hard.
When we zap a note, we shall not consider the overall value of the note, because then we shall zap that whole amount. (This does not even come to our mind in Fiat Land. We want everything for free, regardless how much it worth.)
We shall zap based on the value we got. This is unrelated from the fact how many people zapped, and how much sats are already collected. If a note gives you value, zap the amount you feel right.
Also an interesting topic on this regard is the equilibrium of supply and demand. Usually on a market, you get a good, if you pay. This means, you have to decide if it worth that much for you or not.
Usually we buy something when we can't get it otherwise and we value it more, than it costs. If something is cheap, people want more of it, but merchants want to sell less of it. The different sides want to optimize for different things.
So it could be hard to translate this behavior into open-sourceness/consume first - pay later.
Also investigating the above statements, one could expect, that we will zap less to something than we would willing to pay if it was a paid product.
