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Unfortunately they will loose a lot of people over it and it is just silly. All you have to do is look at facebook and you can see that loads of people can not distinguish the difference between 100kg of fuel for the race distance which will take nearly two hours to complete and a fuel flow limit of 100kg/h.
I can see why they have the fuel flow limit, despite what you and I would love to see, they don't want to see 1400HP banzai engines in quali or for overtaking in race and max fuel flow is a pretty rigid way of achieving that, but it remains to be seen if they can get the meters working well enough to lay down a limit and enforce it rigidly, they were talking about absolute zero tolerance before the race with the penalty for using 100.1kg/h being the same as 120kg/h. Assuming that FIA delegates oversee the race fuel quantity filled (And they should) then it should be pretty easy to confirm or blow away the DQ.
"You started with 110kg of fuel as confirmed by our delegate, by our fuel flow metering you exceeded the max flow of 100kg/h on numerous occasions. By our fuel flow records you should have used 98kg of fuel in total leaving 12kg at race end however post race scrutineering reveals that you had 14kg of fuel remaining, due to this discrepancy no action will be taken"
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