The PR for this change has been awful. What the change means is that now, each of your votes will use up more of your voting power than it did before. This runs your voting power down faster, but it makes each of your votes more powerful. This is the detail that the devs keep forgetting to mention.

The other detail that they don't explain well is that if you vote 40 times per day under the new rules, each of your votes will be worth the same as they are right now (before the new rules start). If you vote a lot, you don't hurt yourself - you just spread out your influence over a larger number of votes.

But sadly, the devs have never known how to explain this stuff, so people are going to freak out and vote less.