It's just a downvote not a negative attack on your person.

Personally I only downvote where I think there is an abuse since I accept everybody's opinions no matter how wrong they actually are. What this has served to do is put the rewards into the hands of people doing more positive work on the chain by removing rewards from the worst abusers. There will obviously be some blow back from this but overall I think that better content is getting rewarded and in the long run is a good thing. There will be some abuse as with any system but like you said your rewards seem higher. With a lot more users there would be a higher STEEM price and this will lead to more people spreading out the reward pool as well. The worst part for my right now is the power that a few accounts have overall but again with more users this will spread out and balance too.