So they said they wanted the series of ceilings and the max gas limit to ensure that the supply didn't end up in the hands of a few large investors, they wanted it to be widely distributed instead.
Naive of me to assume the 50 gwei applied to everybody... when it turns out that the people going through bitcoinsuisse (that is, the whales, as that's an expensive route to take) are automatically at the front of the queue.

Giving priority to whales seems a pretty weird way to ensure widespread distribution.