More Words, Deeper Hole

My understanding is that authors like to have as many fiction categories as possible, since it's a significant career-boost to win a Hugo and so you want as many bites at the cherry as possible. And thus any Worldcon business meeting where there is a vote on reducing the number of fiction categories will find itself surprisingly well-attended by people voting against. (I don't mean to imply that there's anything wrong with this; it's the system working, not the system failing to work.)