I understand your perspective but we have seen many users who do not ever stake their BOID and only sell it on the market as fast as possible. Requiring some stake encourages long-term contributors that really care about the project and participating in governance. If you participate on Boid and never stake you are at a disadvantage.
Then make it so that staking remind constant but power is still valuable. With the current proposals it makes is to inputting minumula power is optimal for maximum gains as a staker, but a nonstaked account can never catch up without orders of magnitude (impossible in most cases) in power gains. eg a 0 stake or even 100k staker with 60k power will be earning less than someone with (I think math is right) someone with 1mil staked and 6k power, if that math is wrong the point is that power should eventually overcome stake. Or one should be able to see their power instead of their coin. Eg If I dont want to participate by staking I should be able to sell my power, this creates an economy where power is valued also, and created an incentive to keep rigs online.