Well, claiming to be "the very first SMT on the Steem Blockchain" is a little different than saying, they "will be one of the first meta-tokens to launch," especially considering that there is no way to create the tokens at the moment. As far as we know, SMTs are just an idea, until the hard fork is proposed and accepted.
Words matter when it comes to these things in this space. False advertising/bad first impressions can do a lot of damage.
The hard fork will be accepted. The current witnesses appear to only want the price of steem to go up not its quality. We need a option to downvote witnesses wipe out the corrupt ones.