It's good to find and set a common goal for steem users. then all users might unite and move steem toward that goal.
But I don't think, removing or replacing the reward pool can help achieve this purpose.

We already milked enough STEEM from the reward pool and now trying to prevent others from milking it. I see these types of suggestions all over the comments and chat platforms.

Do we really need to affect STEEM price by reducing its inflation rate? I think instead we can focus on onboarding new users and not just investors. If we only focus on investors, we will lose our real value, the real users of Steem, who are more valuable than investors.

I think we should make it possible for outsiders to understand Steem and start using Steem by just a few clicks. We can focus more on non-tech users and make everything for them.

We are writing posts for each other inside a circle! Who else is gonna read this comment? no one! Maybe just a few steemians. We lack in the number of real users. I agree we have other problems too and it's just one of them.

(sorry if all is not related to the root post)