I 100% agree with payouts need to be expanded. I brought this up weeks back and it looked like they headed in the right direction to only go back to a version of the old model . I used poker as my example as well and even provided charts that showed tournament payouts across multiple million and billion dollar companies. To be fair the auto tournaments are new so I think we need to give them time to work out any kinks. Hopefully they are able to implement payouts based on the % of players entered at some point.
Edit: On further review of the finished tournaments it looks like they have expanded the payout structure.
That's a smart move and I'm happy to hear that.
Thanks for your response also and I agree with giving them a break on the tournaments and functionality part....no problem or issues there - you can never have things perfect from the get go.