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.
We won't ever need to scale if we don't maintain/increase Bitcoin's utility.
... and who increases bitcoin utility?
deadbeats ranting and raving on forums about how terrible all the devs are ... or developers adding features, tools, layers, wallets, protocol extensions?
Only clueless dogs bite the hands that feed them.