Very disappointed that the max bet went down

Increasing the house edge would have been also not great but much less worse in my opinion.
It's like a business refusing customers vs a business raising it's price.
Agreed. Max bet at 1% was the only real chance of Nakowa going busto when he starts with his 300BTC bets. I'd rather lose my whole investment because of an incredible (and very unlikely) strike of bad luck, than just taking down the max bet which practically means that we won't be recovering our losses for months...