They are not patient people. :) I am not opposed to the idea, but I do think it is too soon. However, I've seen this move coming....
I will not hold if they do it now. It's do soon, with too little distribution and ineffective leaders as Large Stakeholders in a DPOS chain matters.
The bear market has taken an emotional toll on many of our users and stakeholders and they are looking for ANY WAY to stop the bleeding. It's short sighted in my view... But I think we will see a reduction in inflation sooner rather than later.
It's not really an emotional reaction at all. If SMTs are a viable product, it makes sense to go this route. As Andrarchy said above...
You can't remove the current economy before replacing it. Also, who wants to hold or buy a token with no vision or use case?
Don't break what you have before you have a viable replacement.
It would be replaced with an SMT. Steem would be the base layer on which everything else is created.
Better get those out and released before you talk about breaking the only use case we have.
I agree with the future vision and hate the timing.
Yes of course, it would only be done when SMTs are released and functional, that is the whole premise behind the change.