I'm so excited to see the effects of HF19. I think the higher payout posts might still get their high payouts (though maybe a bit lower), because smaller fishes follow bigger fishes in their votes, so besides the high numbers in potential payout, they also have high numbers in votes. Still, it will be interesting to see if things even out a bit.
With this new change, I think we'll feel closer to the whales and gaining more SP will feel much more empowering. That is a great thing to happen :-)
Thank you for explaining things! It's all really quite confusing and all most of us can do is guess to what the end results will be.