It's not the same to lower the value of a particular post by just a few cents as it is to reset all of a week's posts to zero.

There really aren't many cases when a small downvote of a few cents makes sense. Like if people get downvoted for being "over rewarded" those posts tend to have super big payout and the downvote tends to be fairly big too. (I do not downvote for over rewarded posts by the way).

It also depends on who casts the downvote

I think this is true for people who have been on the platform for a longtime. But also these people tend not to freakout in the same way as newer accounts.

Either way, these are good points and I will consider them going forward. I do hope we can have a world where there is a more productive reconciliation process for the average person that gets downvoted.