It isn't really a significantly greater number of people. It is 159 accounts with a non-negligible gain, a significant number of which can reasonably easily be identified as: a) bots, b) people (including the largest known whale) holding more than one account, c) people who even larger losses on a different account. Just because the rest can't be so easily identified as being in one of these categories, doesn't mean a good number of them aren't as well.

I support the idea of wider distribution of rewards, but this just wasn't it (and maybe that will be an issue going forward with the same algorithm too, or maybe not, we will have to see). I hope to organize a pool funded by the largest beneficiaries of the original algorithm to voluntarily spread out some the initial rewards to a much larger number of active early-adopter users. Even if no one else wants to participate I will likely do some of this on my own, but I will contribute more if others are on board too.