So . . . I have a pretty major stake in the liquidity pools (at least, as far as my finances are concerned). Unfortunately, due to the tremendous loss in SPS's value over the lifetime of the pool, I'm not going to recover what I put into the pool -- particularly if the rewards that I've expected/invested in are suddenly dramatically reduced.

And this really isn't a matter of "the rich" stealing from everyone else. Most of "the rich" are disproportionately staked in the DAO and haven't been shouldering the risk/burden of providing liquidity -- and now they want all the profits from the liquidity pools with no personal risk.

What this is is a matter of Splinterlands having requested that community members take on a risk that has not paid off for them -- and is now cutting off rewards (that have drastically reduced in value) to divert them to the whales that make up the majority of the DAO.

This is also a MASSIVE deviation from the distribution proposed in the white paper. There have been other projects that have altered their distributions to benefit some parties and to cut other parties out of expected benefits. And such shenanigans never bode well for the long-term prospects of projects.