I would still argue against favoritism in the fee economics..
The reason this was done is 2 fold.. incentivize adoption to segwit and more importantly Reduce UTXO growth.
I will remain distrustful of Core's leadership and their conflicted interest in forcing the settlement layer architecture.
How will bitcoin scale to the mainstream if it didn't act as a settlement layer for the main chain? It certainly cant get far by continually increasing the block side.