> I'm also an advocate for doing our best to "break" Steemit so we can find the weak spots while we're still in beta.

That's an interesting viewpoint! For sure - if it is going to break, now is the time to make it happen :)

> Any of these changes to pay/reward structure really isn't going to affect my participation anyway so maybe I'm crazy.

Hopefully it will make more 'regular' users feel like they at least have _some_ say by increasing the power of their votes compared to the mega-whales :)