Fair enough, but ETH and SOL are solid examples of linear distribution working in practise. Everyone voting in these DAO votes earned their JUP including whales.
Tiered has given significant % gains to those who game LFG votes and will give JUP to people that gamed the system with undectable sybils hence linear is best. Tiered is best for other allocations i.e. swap, limit order, DVA/VA, bridge, perps usage, community contribution etc.
An example with 1 detectable sybil cluster:
0.1 JUP staked = 10 $ZEUS $8.3
1 JUP staked = 10 $ZEUS $8.3
1 sybil had 0.1 JUP in 19k wallets ($1.7k), he made 190,000 $ZEUS = $158,000
Shows a 19k wallet cluster (frequency) with 0.1 JUP staked in each wallet and made $156k or 93x gain on 1.7k investment.