N2 with the whale experiment was doing the trick just fine, it forced the hard fork so that reward pool rape could become a thing.

Does that disadvantage large investors?
Only if the price doesnt rise with all the happy new users that matter in the math.

Who puts $50k into a blogging platform anyway?
If they want to speculate in amounts larger than that they need to keep their hands off of minnow rewards.
When a whale votes everybody else loses money.