I'd say a hybrid of both.

For advanced users, they can curate their own feeds, for noobs they want content curated for them.

Some of us just take our feeds raw, as is pure 1:1 as the npubs post it.

Maybe a WoT system helps too, reduces the bots, and spam.

For me, it's not so much about having content catered to me but allowing me to find the human content more easily, and ignoring unuseful bots.

Who knows 🤷‍♂️, that's just what I think though.