The Feb. 2023 increase to the minimum bond found in this link noted the bond “will be reviewed as deemed appropriate by the community”.
The total amount of staked MOVR (bond+stake - before the operators of these 8 nodes announced their intentions) needed to enter the active set had increased to ~20k – which is a much higher bond+stake than when the bond was increased in Feb 2023. Once the set rotates and new nodes join, it is expected that this total staked amount for the collator in 72nd place will rebalance to around 20k MOVR, which will provide a stabilizing effect to the active set. In the event future operators decide to move on, those positions should be more quickly backfilled with the bond reset to 500 MOVR. Therefore I support the move to decrease 500 MOVR.
Looking forward to the chilling effect RT2600 will have.