My oppinion is not changing starting from previous “Improvement”:
I think the minimum threshold for payouts is OK but my concerns is another. The root cause is reduced transparency for SNO.
Did you provide/announce control for SNO before this change? - NO
Another concern, this change will be a problem for a new SNO:
here is an example of new SNO nodes (2TB drive, started at 2020-04):
So, no comment… I think everyone understands this concern for new SNO (I see GrolaG already wrote this concern)
I just can summarize: The change is good for cost optimization but not to increase transparency for SNO.