The reason people want steem is because it has value, if it was worthless people wouldn't give a fu* about it, so you have to make sure to align incentives with people pouring money into the system aka investors. If it was guaranteed that minnows would gain more influence I think it would probably be a good trade off and I'd go along with it, but whales will still be able to upvote and so I doubt minnows will gain much and be incentivized enough to buy steem power . This problem needs to be dealt with at the root. Btw I think that steem won't survive long term if 100% of the voting power is not given to the 99.8% so I am very into the idea of giving minnow influence but the way it's being done here bothers me.