I might have misunderstood this completely then. Doesn't the change affect just the value of each individual vote and not the way votes work together on the same post? I though one was changing and the other was staying the same.
Am I getting this wrong?
Yes, you are getting it wrong. There will no longer be any synergy between multiple people voting on the same thing.
That's quite unfortunate. Thanks for clearing that up and setting me straight then. You are the first one I see that has mentioned that consequence and now I feel a bit stupid for echoing the positive sentiment that might turn out to be baseless optimism.
We'll see how people will end up behaving, but the counterproductive incentives are definitely there.