The reason they require 32 ETH to stake is that there's a scaling limit on number of stakers. They're working on improving that, thus decreasing the staking req

The reason they require 32 ETH to stake is that there's a scaling limit on number of stakers. They're working on improving that, thus decreasing the staking requirement. It's very likely to stay a power of 2, so just a single reduction down to 16 ETH would make up for 34 years of deflation at 2%.