You haven't specified what size galaxy this is on. Galaxy size HAS to be a factor just to keep the game balanced. CIV3 (Sid Meier's) made a huge mistake on this and it destroyed the game for large map players.

I play gigantic, loose clusters usually.

I'm still playing my 2.0 test game on an excessive galaxy and things seem to be going well enough for my tastes. I still have the highest influence of all the civs, though it's not as easy to flip planets as it was before, it still hasn't hampered my ability to kick AI butt and make them jealous of my wonderful civilization.

On 2.0 on Insane with Spiral, Rare/Rare I can say that influence is not strong enough. Ideally I'd like to see an algorithm that has Influence scale based on map size. I suspect that Citizens will also greatly affect they way everything works including Influence. 

So before I call for change, I am willing to wait to see how the new mechanics of Citizens work to change the output of (production/research/food/happiness and influence).

You could make a mod I wouldn't use to do this that way you are satisfied. I still don't think the game enough influence on larger maps, but I wouldn't stop you from making a mod that changed influence buildings for everyone. You would have to modify all the tech trees influence techs. Personally wouldn't use this mod myself.

I disagree I fill like I got a lot done. Latest implementation galactic citizens.