This dilemma, I think, has divided the platform in apparently unreconcilable bands.
I don't quite understand the numbers, but I wonder if there have been in-between options proposed so that the whales and dolphins (as some of them have expressed) do not see it as a waste of their hard-worked resources to vote for other people's posts (increase of curation percentage, proportional to SP?).
The thing is that some users have blantantly expressed that they don't see it right/fair to benefit others with their votes , as if others are not doing the same with theirs, especially minnows. It's a sad reflection of the inequalities of the "real" world and no matter how oftern it is stated that people have equal opportunity to make the same amount of money/SP, here we can see how much complicated that can be.
Maybe the end result of this dispute will be the corroboration of close humanity is from salvation or damnation (and I'm only losely using the terms in their religious denotation).