It's not just about being hard on people without the slider, it's created a scarcity mindset around voting power so that we are all less likely to Upvote. There are also those with sliders who are lazy and would rather give 100% votes to their friends because it's nice to give a full dollar. Maybe they'll do it for strangers too but not as much a surprise ifhey had 40 votes a day at 100%
The only way you are unaffected by the change is if you always vote at 20-30%
Yup! I keep mine down quite a bit and if I'm lazy, I double click the upvote button, because I know it's not at 100%. I need to conciously make the decision to upvote 100%. I guess not everyone has gotten the same thought pattern :-(