Then how about address the two open issues on GitHub regarding the matter? People keep opening the issue back up because it's an issue. You guys keep thinking it's ok for a witness to run on a raspberry pi powered by a solar cell and unicorn farts.
Please check GitHub I opened one up the day you announced the 30 day limit and I had a dozen authors lined up to come over but the limit squelched that and the final word was that if someone wants long term rewards that this isn't the platform for it.
https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues/267
Notice that this eventually led to @theoreticalbits saying tldr moved to his personal blog.
Point is this keeps coming up. People serious about long-term monetization of content won't waste time here if it's not fixed. That's pretty much every author that @ghostwriter and myself know. And we do know a few.
I read your entry in Github. I think now there is a lot of buzz around this feature and they will find a way, somehow.