I understand without the exponential boost to vests that the small fry won't see a boost to our rewards on the scale of the whale experiment, but our slice of the pie will still be made larger.

1000mv makes a still difficult hill to climb less steep.
500,488hp is a more attractive goal than to have to buy millions to compete equally in the pool.

Adhering to this limit might attract folks more modest in their means as the goal is more realistically attained.
As things are, how many people do you think can afford to get into the top 35 accounts?
I bet there are more that will be willing to risk 1000mv than 10k mv.

I haven't found somebody to give me the rake of those top 35, but the more the price rises the less likely that any of them will be unseated.
Anybody with 900k usd to invest would be irresponsible to not know this number, imo.
I do know the whale share is getting larger, the whales are not getting diluted by the inflation.

Maybe what they take from the pool is irrelevant, but somehow I doubt selling their votes wholesale, ie delegating for profit, that their rake from the pool is inconsequential.

They wouldn't bother if the return wasn't worth the time.

So, yes, I do support a whale class with the self discipline to leave some more for others.
It's a feature, not a bug.