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Right- the point is that the original repugnant conclusion is avoided if you replace "adding any number of people with positive happiness leads to a superior aggregation" with "there is some number of people with below-average utility who can be added which leads to a superior aggregation."
I don't think it's necessary to butcher your utility function calculations that way. Adding someone with a positive-value life is a good thing (else it would not be positive value).