I watched the live stream yesterday, it's very sad to hear that SMTs will probably be delayed at a couple of months from the testing phase. I hope they wil release a simplified version as someone suggested so that dapps can further prosper like we've seen year to date, find new marketing strategies and revenue streams like steemmonsters did that bring value to their SMT, hence to Steem.

Steemit Inc should just focus on blockchain development while leaving the community build things on top of it, making the entire ecosystem grow.

Even in a bull run though, you can't just rely on the speculative value of Steem to grow a business, secondary sources of income are mandatory imho, you still need to be attached to the old online marketing systems at this young stage of the industry (like BTC still needs a fiat pairing e.g.), ads wouldn't be that much of a problem for me, as Steemit is not selling nor manipulating user data like other social networks do anyway.