Many people only think about the value of SBD, STEEM or BTC in terms of USD. It's that real world value that influences their motivation to create great content.
That said, I think it should be a browser-based setting people could configure for themselves. I wrote a blog post a while back about hiding the $ symbol entirely with Stylish. I did it for 24 hours. It does change the experience.
people have to get used to it in order to adopt.it is going to have some bumps on the way,but has to happen in my opinion