I mostly agree. I deliberately did not address the 100 vote vs 40 vote issue because also agree with your comment that it can't be changed (my proposal has always been to stop prominently displaying the vote count because it is misleading and making it more visible is not only confusing but creates an incentive to deliberately manipulate it, as we saw in the case of the Hot ranking before that was changed).

However, I do think it helps, in narrowing the disparity. A 40 vote post may (and will) certainly earn more than a 100 vote post, but even when that does happen the disparity would often be much smaller, in practice. Maybe that reduces the degree to which it seems unfair, maybe not, but it certainly can't hurt.