Being that in the Roadmap announcement staff noted that there will be changes to level requirements, I don’t know if they will increase them. Keep in mind that the more users that are eligible to use Wayfarer, the more likely that it will be used.
There are for sure pros and cons to adding lower level users, but since we lost Ingress, there has to be a way to make up for those users possibly no longer being a part of Wayfarer, and their new users no being able to participate. Scopely has to find a way to make up the lost numbers from the sale, and this seems to be one way of doing it.