Reduced whale (full power) voting means high-payout posts are few and far between. Additionally, some whales have started downvoting high-payout posts. This is a good thing! While high payout posts are flashy, they in turn reduce everybody else's payout. By limiting the payout on even the most trendy posts, the rewards get spread out much more evenly, so even the mostly unnoticed posts receive a slightly larger share of the reward pool.