New users do not get autovoted by whales so they are not impacted by this.
Actually they are benefiting since more users have influence in the platform so they are more likely to get rewards for their posts.

The people whining about this experiment are a minority of people that gets autovoted by whales and think of steemit as their main job. Most of them are shortsighted and are not interested in growing the value of the platform as a whole.