What should be reduced is the SBD to STEEM transfer delay. "Convert to STEEM".
1week is long and if incentives taking the Steem Dollars out to trade for Steem in exchanges.
It should not only be (almost) immediate, but offering a +x% premium on the transfers. (Ideally...)
I have heard people complain about this but it has never taken me a week to convert my SBD to Steem. I click on my SBD, go to 'Buy or Sell', sell my SBD for Steem, which usually occurs in less than an hour, then I convert to Steem Power. I've never taken my Steem out to an exchange. Does it take a week to get Steem to an exchange?
I speak about the Convert to Steem button.
This button then should disappear.
Buy/Sell is the way to go.
If you use the transfer option you get 1usd worth of steem based on the median price of the last 7 days. If you were to go to market now you'd get around 0.78.
The discount of the SD to an actual dollar is a leading indicator (in my eyes) of what will happen to the price of steem.
So it's all a bit more complicated than just buy/sell.