I read your post as bolded, 5% slightly above average. 5% of a 600 player draft is 30 players. Lucas' post notes 30 players in his post I quoted..
I'm not saying it can't be tweaked, v25 just came out and with all of the changes I'd probably be more surprised if fine tuning wasn't needed. I just don't want to over correct, as we did in the past, to placate some that wanted change because "realistic" wasn't "fun". Add in many of those asking for the "fun" change continued to say the 5% was unrealistic anyway.
To the first bold point: That is the exact argument the "draft is not fun" posters used that wanted it changed. IE it takes too long to separate players when the next 50 guys are all 30/80 or 1.5 stars. Their solution was to pump up player ratings, giving a wider range of Ov/Pot, to make sorting easier and fun. But those ratings were artificially high meaning players are more likely to crash, less likely to develop. Now comes the complaints.. "why did my 3.5 star player I just drafted crash to 1.5 stars 3 months later?".
If they can tweak the pool without artificially pumping up ratings, or if the pool is short of realistic numbers and they tweak that? I'm all for it.
To the second bold point: I hope you don't think I am dismissing your concerns. I'm not and I hope they see something in your files that can fix the issue without going down the road we already traveled. Nothing more than that. I'd also add that I have not seen your file, you may well be right and things are not as they should be.
My only concern is that we don't end up going away from reality for something more "fun" as we did in the past.