Let $A$ be an additive basis of order $2$, let $f(n)$ denote the number of ways in which $n$ can be written as the sum of two elements from $A$. If $f(n) > \epsilon \log n$ for large $n$ and an arbitrary fixed $\epsilon > 0$, then must $A$ contain a minimal additive basis of order $2$?

Let $A$ be an additive basis of order $2$, let $f(n)$ denote the number of ways in which $n$ can be written as the sum of two elements from $A$. If $f(n) \to \infty$ as $n \to \infty$, then must $A$ contain a minimal additive basis of order $2$?

Larsen and Larsen [LaLa26] answered this in the negative.