There is no need to place the clamp on lowering diff with suggest_diff since it is predomoninantly used at miner startup and we can rapidly adapt should it be too low anyway

src/stratifier.c

@@ -2420,11 +2420,6 @@ static void set_worker_mindiff(ckpool_t *ckp, const char *workername, int mindif
 			continue;
 		if (mindiff == client->diff)
 			continue;
-		/* If we're going down in diff, do not allow the next diff to
-		 * be drastically lower than the current diff */
-		if (mindiff < client->diff * 2 / 3)
-			client->diff = client->diff * 2 / 3;
-		else
 		client->diff = mindiff;
 		stratum_send_diff(client);
 	}