You cut my quote off too early. Check the following two paragraphs and you'll see why the lottery wasn't like a pre-mine at all. It earned you 0.1 CLAMs per block almost all the time, and more very rarely, for an average of *less* than 1 CLAM per block:
That's not really so clear. Getting coins earlier under PoS is worth more than getting the same number of coins later, because of compounded staking. Someone who exploited the lottery gaining hypothetically 30% of the coin supply then in existence and then continuously staked would have a
lot of coins now. I have no idea whether either happened.