The idea behind that was to make it tedious for people to redeem large amounts of stakes without really limiting the free market. If people know they have to split up their stakes they might not buy more stakes because they are too lazy to split them up. We all know many crypto folks are lazy as fuck.
We should do anythoer analsysis after the distribution is finished. Once thing is for sure. NEMs distribution will be hell of a lot better at day 1 thatn NXTs a year after launch.

People think distribution isn't that important but it's very important. That's not an opinion that's fact. You can't depend on people to do the right thing for the ecosystem if thy can just do what's best for themselves and dump for profit. Didn't BCNext run aways because most stakeholders where to dumb to realize that ?