Pay up to $110K to build a proposal. That's what has been announced. Not a community effort at finding solutions for incentivizing people to work on Steem. Not even an open bid process... just another decision to be rammed down our throats. This Hail Mary requires a future consensus of Witnesses... which likely won't be hard to acquire because Steem is extremely centralized.

Author rewards is also where beneficiary rewards come from that many app developers have calculated in to their business models. Who other than Steemit is intent to do as little as possible work and is willing to slash the reward pool to shirk their workload on the blockchain? Can't even write your own hard forks now? At least @blocktrades thinks they can deliver in a timely fashion. throws hands in the air