It has been thrown out there many a time by various Steemians during the course of the past two years that I recall.

In various conversations, post comment threads, discord chats written and voice.

But not to throw the blame on people who don't understand and who maybe sincerely believe that this is something that could make Steem great, I will throw in a comment I made on the topic just last night in a voice conversation in The Alliance Bar:

"How many investors do you know out there who are willing to give 100% effort into their investments/businesses only to see their potential profits cut by 33% or 50% without them being able to do anything about it?"

Seriously, think about it!

Then there is another aspect to this:

As a backup witness, if let's say these changes go through as per the votes from the existing governance (top20 witnesses) maybe I as a backup witness may not have to update to HF21 in order for my server to perform its set tasks as far as the blocks go.

However, sooner or later there will be another HF and another and another, eventually one that has to be implemented by ALL witnesses who wish to ensure the server is active and not "in the red".

So there is no choice in the matter for backup witnesses, eventually one day it shall be a "must".

Nothing wrong with doing what needs to be done, but yeah, when we look at things realistically, the question(s) posed should literally be answered by those who are pushing it.

& NO, I don't believe in any "juggling of figures" as far as the "post rewards" go to be important at this stage.

We have definitely outgrown "a blogging site" we now have various sites on our blockchain and we need to be looking at the needs of them as private investors.

Each site = an individual business and as such they should be promoting, working on and doing everything possible to make their site known of, used and the talk of the town!

We are now in 2019, almost in 2020, yet we are still talking about obsolete, totally outdated topics as if we are still in 2017 with only one blogging website (front end) using Steem.

ref: Responsibilities of Front End Owners. (ref: HF21)

& as for the funding of projects/proposals, hell, with all the Steem being produced and nobody wanting to invest a part of it back into the further expansion of Steem, I mean, seriously. It takes money to make money. Steem did not have an ICO and now that we have come to a point where we are finally filling in the gaps, people can't decide on where to fund them from. Seriously?????????

Won't continue on from this point, have said all I am going to say on that matter.