Evan does not own 500+ nodes. Otoh our largest investor currently owns about 430 nodes as he divested a big portion of his nodes in favor of more distribution and a healthier network, also giving new whales the opportunity to buy in. Having said that, I don't see why the minimum age for a proposal could not be changed to 48 or 72 hours to always give the network more time. I think that is a really good suggestion.
How would you know?
I ran the numbers 6 months ago, but I estimated Evan should have mined 750,000+ in the first 24 hours with the hashrate he himself claimed to have at the time... that's 750MNs already... (not that he necessarily has them online right now)
I'm sure you'll agree, that no one knows the facts about how many MNs people have, save for Otoh who is pretty transparent about it. Instead of speculation, maybe you should concentrate on improving the voting process, which Minotaur agreed that you were on to something.