I think you raised valid points. Thank you for sharing your opinion and providing relative information.
and cannot agree more on the last part - now we are really talking about how to improve steem, instead of how to divide limited/fixed reward pool.
It has been a long time coming, but I think we as a community are actually seeing that there is a lot more value in this place than what comes out of the Steem reward pool. I am looking forward to SMTs - they were so close... :D