With the cost of gas fees any one under 10k stake is doing reward calls for a loss. (this makes the top 32 orchestrators profitable or break even) which means majority of the bottom orchestrators are either taking a loss or transcoding for fees exclusively.
Taking steps to reduce the reward call fees to as minimally as possible, in my opinion, should be a high priority, you’d be activating the remaining orchestrators in the top 100 and allow for a more fair distribution of delegator stake as delegators wont distribute to people who aren’t making calls.
Even at 1 reward call per week which would run about 50-100$ in gas fees would still require orchestrators to have closer to 2k LPT staked to break even on it. Although if the upgrade aligns with the release of ETH2.0 maybe gas fees would be drastically less but it would never get to the level at which people without significant stake can do reliable reward calls without taking a loss.
Keeping LPT reward calls in L2 where fees would be drastically lessened would be ideal to a more consistent inflationary call schedule across majority of the orchestrators and their delegators.