The problem with your spin on it, is how does it work for those who don't refer many webmasters and have no interest to?
For example, let's say you have a guy who knew 3 people who promote dating heavily, who for one reason or another were not promoting AFF. This guy spends some time and effort convincing them to give it a shot and they finally start promoting it.
As long as they promote it, he makes his cut for the initial referral.
He isn't a broker and he doesn't know other guys who aren't already promoting AFF, nor does he care to launch some site to try and refer people.
With the recent change, he now loses that chunk of money he was making every month. For no reason other than AFF's greed.
If he was smart, he would try and convince his referrals to stop sending to AFF and refer them elsewhere. Of course, they can't stop or they would lose their payments if they stop sending traffic. They can keep a minimal amount going though and switch out the majority.
So, in the above scenario, which is more common that you'd think, what happens:
- AFF pisses off someone who may bring them new business in the future; if he ever did come across someone else to refer, he will never do it now.
- Loses traffic and sales from good affiliates who switch majority of traffic elsewhere
Spin that.
