I don’t think their feelings about the small accounts are antagonistic in any way. It’s more that they want to be in the backend business of providing the blockchain for SMTs to be built on, not the frontend business of running a social media site. That’s why the website looks like something from the 20th century. That’s why we will always remain in beta. This whole thing is a testing environment to them. That’s not as an attitude, but as an actual purpose.
So as long as enough of us keep using it for them to get adequate and accurate data, they are achieving their goals. In the meantime, we put up with operating in a test environment in exchange for having something of an advantage over those who come later. The more we buy STEEM, the more we benefit them, so they definitely want to incentivize that behavior. Hence the way to fight spam is really a way to fight poor people’s spam. Spammers with SP are unaffected.
Really it all becomes purely logical once you see what their primary aim is and what the real deal is that we’re being offered.