WI: Effects of Byzantine class system reform

First, I want to go over the class system of the Eastern Roman Empire. For the purposes of this thread, let's use the term Byzantine. Being the successor to the unified Roman empire, it had effectively the same class system, which was something like this:

Free- 75%
Slave- 25%


Of the free people:

Citizens- 50%
Non-citizens- 50%


Originally, I'm pretty sure almost no one in the East of the Roman Empire would have even been a citizen, since it was mostly the descendants of the Italians that were citizens by inheritance. After Emperor Caracalla's edict, though, all free men were considered citizens, while women were still not citizens. There were some reforms in the later Byzantine empire, though.

Of the citizens:

Patrician- 10%
Plebeian- 90%


If this accurate, just under 4% of the empire were "of the favored families", meaning that they could be Senators, consuls, etc., and of course, Emperors.

What if there was a later reform that loosened this requirement and got rid of the traditional system of plebeian vs. patrician?
 
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