I said automatically - voting comments still requires there be one at least 15 minutes old with no self vote.

This is well within our scripting capabilities. You still have to make the comments, but making comments is easier than making posts.

Ultimately I think the flaw in the way you have been looking at this whole thing is you are focusing on what accounts will lose

There's more than one way to look at losing. Both you and Paula have decided to look at what current posts will gain or lose rather than looking at how much of your stake reward will go to places you didn't choose if you vote naively. That's way more important to me. If the system is burning 7% of total vote value that means a lot to me as a voter.