Your calculations confirm my reasoning on what will happen if the new hard fork goes through. It will make it harder for minnows and redfish and not easier. It will limit flow and not increase it. Now, they can't even get profit out of bid-bot. (Not a fan of bit bots but I have seen them work for some redfish)

If we want to increase engagement, rewards must be linked to engagement. An engagement score applied to payout would work wonderfully or even just an engagement score replacing rep scores. So someone new to the platform knows whether or not their #humansteem will be reciprocated​.

To my mind the EIP portion of the proposed HF is ill-conceived and we would be better keeping what we have now and instead enlisting a marketing firm.