What we also really need is a private full node service. Serious Steem-based sites and services should not be relying on public nodes and should easily be able to pay for access to a private one.
The appbase and jussi projects should make hosting full nodes much easier and much more stable, so i'm hoping that we see a lot more becoming available in the near future.
Not a bad idea. And, fingers crossed, but I'm not hopeful.