what is the purpose of the 5% monthly miner rewards reduction and why is it tied to an seemingly arbitrary time frame instead of to price or inflation or something? Why not allow mining to remain profitable for new and existing miners that weren't early adopters? the website doesn't explain the actual rationale specifics anywhere as far as i can tell. So far, i'm having trouble justifying buying any HDDs for this, even though it would have been nice given the GPU un-supply situation.

also, does mining optimized plots mine enough to justify the fact that optimization makes a large chunk of your space unusable, assuming that's an accurate assessment of the situation.

thanks