This distribution suffers the fate of most crypto distros in that the rich gets richer etc. and there is no fair way to distribute either here or anywhere else. The real distribution starts when the whales dump their Bytes to the smaller whales who dump to even smaller whales etc. Someone should come up with a fair and wide way to distribute coin both here and in the outside world.
What is not fair by getting what you pay for. If I have more money than you and am able to buy something that you cannot or the same amount, why should I take on the burden
It just goes against the principal stated in the OP: "I believe the success of a currency depends on the number of people who own it, in fact Peter Rs research suggests that historical marketcap of Bitcoin follows Metcalfe's law:
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/572106.0, i.e. it is proportional to the square of the number of active users."
So, the dev team, wants to distribute to as many users as possible but end up giving most away to a few users. They are not asking for payment, so it's not a question of getting what you paid for, just a flawed way of distributing.