I would consider it "Nothing" compared to what the whales benefit from the smaller fish on the platform! That will never change because small fish are content with the "Scraps" and are never looking to work to make a change in how it works at all.
I have to say this and it will make many mad but I will say it anyway. If all the small fish would pull all delegations to the whales and move more to help the other small fish out it and make the bigger witnesses do more to help the small fish for their witness vote would bring about some change.
Some of the bigger account witnesses do make a difference but not all of them do. If the small fish on this platform would wake up and realize that there are more of us and make the witnesses depend on us instead of the other way around it would make it far better everyone and not just make the big whale account's money.
The whale accounts will have the power until the small fish on this platform wake up and realize we are the ones with the power and make the whale accounts work for us for the witnesses votes and the delegations. Just my two cents and again just my opinion.
I get where you're coming from but I honestly think you're directing this at the wrong project. :)
We mainly encourage passive stakeholders to delegate to us and @ocdb shares it's votes wide to as many posts we can curate as possible and then some (ocd curators + community leaders we trust and don't always have the time to double check curate). We also encourage smaller accounts not to delegate but to use their voting power to interact and connect with other stakeholders so they can build connections and grow.
Anyway, yes this place would suck if people wouldn't use it but it would also suck if there were no whales holding the token cause the coin would have no value. You gotta think of both ways.