The distribution of representatives must reflect the distribution of voters. If it doesn't, it is wrong. If it substantially different by design, it is political thuggery. Is it really that difficult for you to grasp the obvious, or are you just furious that Democrats outnumber Republicans by an even higher proportion in Michigan than they do in the nation as a whole?

After redistricting, the legislature STILL did not reflect the true partisan makeup of the electorate. The fact that the numbers have changed is not relevant, it is not an improvement, it is not progress, and it is not evidence of the virtue of Republican administration. It is the result of what the gerrymanderers were forced to do in order to maintain their artificial majority under new demographic conditions.

The new districts did not reflect the new demographic reality, they simply responded to the Republican need to maintain a legislative advantage in a state where they were outnumbered and where people of both parties were leaving.

If the distribution of legislators has been deliberately engineered to not reflect the distribution of voters, it doesn't matter what it was before. It simply doesn't matter.

It's not that hard to understand. Its called 'ratio and proportion'. I believe they teach it in sixth grade.