I have twisted feelings about this fork, too... but I wouldn't condemn it right away though.

I understand where the motivation for the EIP comes from, and while it does definitely favor the big wallets in more than one way, it also tries to make staking and holding STEEM more attractive while trying to curb on abuse simultaneously.

I'm somewhat doubtful this will work out as "imagined", but I think we might as well try.

We'll have to see if anything changes and which way that will lead us.

I heard the steemic inc team recently discussing if switching of all proof-of-brain mining for STEEM in a post-SMT world (think HF24,25 or something like that) and leaving that to communities and SMTs completely.

So there's more controversial things to come eventually ;) Exciting times!