One potential... So, you can honestly say that you think on the whole these proposed changes will give investors more incentive than they have now to purchase and power up steem?

I don't think they will.

I recently purchased over $10k worth of steem and I would not/will not be doing so once these changes go through as they are. In my opinion it removes some of the incentive to have steem power.

If the problem that's trying to be solved is the price going down and steem dropping down the ranks on CM (like many have alluded to), I don't think this is anywhere near the best way to try and solve that.