You might be right (though I’ve never seen that objection before). I’ll have to think it out.
However, I think in that circumstance, you’d have a massive incentive to put all your vote onto one candidate who is most likely to win out of the choices you prefer, because anything else would be splitting the vote (in a way that you can’t split a vote under AV, because your lower preferences only get counted if your higher ones have already been knocked out).
So in practice, that system would collapse into something very like FPTP.
You might be right (though I’ve never seen that objection before). I’ll have to think it out. However, I think in that circumstance, you’d have a massive incentive to put all your vote onto one candidate who is most likely to win out of the choices you prefer, because anything else would be splitting the vote (in a way that you can’t split a vote under AV, because your lower preferences only get counted if your higher ones have already been knocked out). So in practice, that system would collapse into something very like FPTP.