You’re just playing with words with thinking. I would rather have 1 fire ant mound in my yard than hundreds.
You are claiming that they would act the same under both systems. I think a representative who answers to 30,000 would behave much differently than one who answers to 700,000. I think a better comparison would be 6000 ants vs. 435 fire ants. Or another would be 6000 people doing want you want vs. 435 people telling you what to do.