I mean, if BBP goes 10x, we will definitely need to change the staking requirements, or else no-one is going to start mining with such high entry costs, and that will shift power to the people already mining now.
Also, for a good 'spread of the wealth', it's probably best to have high early user adoption.
These two points are basically what I was thinking about. It's a growth path that causes me some concern, and of course, we want to have as much legit adoption as possible. It's a fine line to walk, trying to balance the security of the network with making adoption easy and with the economic growth that some are looking for vs a perceived (likely accurately) rising cost of entry.
It's true though that there is no reason this couldn't be changed every mandatory release, other than perhaps confusion. What do we think?
If you start lowering the staking requirements, I'm pulling my stake and leaving.