And then we nerf base mining rates and end up with a lower OF-to-indie ratio than the status quo?
You had indies with x3, OFs with x4. You think x1 gap is too big and want to reduce it to x0.5. You have two ways to do it:
knock OFs down to x3.5.
bump the indie baseline to x3.5 and let OFs have x4 on everything.
The former is a nerf, everyone unhappy. The latter is a buff, everyone is happy. The final outcome is functionally the same, but we skip three pages of announcement drama and god knows how many Discord arguments at this point.
