I applaud your effort, but at the same time I can't feel too hopeful many people will actually understand, or want to understand in the first place. The issues are blindingly obvious to anyone with development experience, and completely incomprehensible and irrelevant to anyone without. People have been saying for months minimum that the tasks are not created equal and yet this simple bit of information eludes a lot of the people in this thread. Sometimes people just want to complain and you're not going to convince them their complaints aren't the most factually correct thing since Galileo uttered his famous quote.
As for the actual splitting, honestly, good decision made way too late. Big tasks complicate development and make it appear more sluggish than it is. But we'll have another influx of tasks (and resulting percentage decrease) anyway when the new version is "complete", testing starts, and the bug tickets come flooding in. I foresee a similar rash of complaints and crying from people who, again, have never developed anything in an organized fashion in their lives.
