Which committee member voted for this increase ?
Who have voted are on the chain.
Actually discussions about fees have been around since long before, E.G.
https://github.com/bitshares/committee-tools/issues/4.
This time, the request to increase fees came from the Russian community, brought up by a legit business - RuDEX. Another legit business, GDEX, voiced support, see
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=32136.msg342089#msg342089 .
This is temporary until UI gets updated ?
There is a core problem, which does prevent the reuse of the asset for the prediction market ?
Think openly, the issue is actually how to improve the system to support legit businesses, not only limited to legit prediction markets. We acknowledge that scammers can abuse prediction markets too, although perhaps not yet happened.
In my opinion, for OP and similar businesses, at this moment, if the community really supports them, creating worker proposals to get compensated is the way to go. Another option is to ask the committee for compensation, although I don't know whether the committee has the right to do so, for example, why compensate one business but not another?
Look at the business logic, reusing token is a bit complex. There is a lot of dust to clean after a market is closed. The participants aren't incentivized to clean the dust right now. Creating a new token is much easier. On the other hand, more "dead" tokens means more resources locked in the system, which is not what we want.
I think one solution would be to have some kind of refunding mechanism, say, refund 90% when a market is closed properly, e.g. all outstanding token settled/destroyed, to save resources for the system. Actually, if the asset owners are able to achieve this, the token is technically ready to be reused, so perhaps just reuse it -- this need a hard fork anyway, so we can actually improve more things at the same time, E.G. put it in the 5.0 release. Any way, to make things done, we start from a discussion, then work out the specifications, then implement, etc, actively participation is required.