The fundamental change that this brings is that it removes the advantage of self voting not autovoting. As an author you can always front-run everybody since leo doesn't have a voting window like hive or other tribes. That is a good thing. It also levels the playing field for curators. But people that don't want to put an effort to manually curate will not have an incentive to not autovote (it's financially agnostic to do so and in fact there is still an opportunity cost to do manual curation -with any system-). As I said I am not that pessimistic but I still remember the effects that the linear curve for author rewards had on steem.