I used my boosts very often for models, which have less or none boosts yet and for designers, which do not have thousands of followers. Even a newbie designer could create something, which is helpful for me or just funny and I do say “Thank you” by boosting it. It seems like, I should only boost the models which thousands of downloads in future…
For me it looks like Makerworld do not want want to draw attention to complex models, they do want to push models with a long printing time and a large filament usage. In best case in addition to some maker supply parts. Makes sence from business perspective, but than, please name it this way! Say “boosting of models with >200g filament usage are preferred”.
But do not spread something like “complex models requires more development time!”. This might be right, but it isn’t always the case. For example I have created an air outlet for our air condition. It looks like a simple piece, around 10g filament and small printing time. But it required over 20 iteration, to find the best result (tight fit for outdoor use without screws, filament selection, outer finish…). On the other hand I created a monitor webcam holder which requires over 300g filament and hours of printing time, looks complex due to the twists in it, but at the end, it was designed in 2 hours and works at the first print.
I also would prefer going back to the original rules, but more moderated. Why not limiting the boosts to people who have printed it? This would reduce the cheating a lot…