You seem to be conflating status and power. Certainly there are a number of mechanisms whereby more powerful people tend to have higher status, but by itself that doesn’t give much reason to think that it’s better to make the status differential equal to the power differential, smaller, or bigger. Many people think it’s good to have a flatter landscape of status than we have of power (indeed I think this is a core western value).
Looking at the content of the post, it also mentions instrumental reasons for pushing portrayals in this direction right at the start: making people uncomfortable and getting attacked for it when not giving enough respect.
You seem to be conflating status and power. Certainly there are a number of mechanisms whereby more powerful people tend to have higher status, but by itself that doesn’t give much reason to think that it’s better to make the status differential equal to the power differential, smaller, or bigger. Many people think it’s good to have a flatter landscape of status than we have of power (indeed I think this is a core western value).
Looking at the content of the post, it also mentions instrumental reasons for pushing portrayals in this direction right at the start: making people uncomfortable and getting attacked for it when not giving enough respect.