Excelent point, Im carefull about my voting power once it gets to the low 80's I stop voting all together or reduce to 30% but I guess with all the new users coming to steemit that only makes sense about the distributed of the overall pool for payouts. In any case those big earners on the trending page are making more now than they did a few weeks ago Im quite sure.

Thanks so much for your fantastic detailed comment/reply @kenny-crane