With a comment reward pool, steemit can become attractive to a much more broad community, extending out from "bloggers" to readers and consumers who can also make money just from adding commentary.

They can do that now, without a separate pool. And flattening the rewards curve on blog posts will invariably free up more rewards for comments, so that proposal alone could lead to better comment distribution. If comments and blog posts were treated the same way, that would also help the situation.

Ultimately though, a comment pool will not attract users if nobody knows about it...or the website itself. Unless there is going to be a marketing campaign to accompany these changes, they won't matter much. Steemit has a lack of active human users and an apparent lack of interested potential users. How does this get addressed and resolved by simply throwing a larger share of rewards at comments?

Never mind the fact that your "strong disagreement" didn't actually address any of the potential issues I raised. With what do you "strongly disagree?"

Basically, this is just the same wishful thinking that everyone seems to buy into with each new proposal. How, precisely, will a comment rewards pool grow the user base, given what we've seen so far with the user base, development/changes, and the marketing of the platform since it began? And how will the reduction in posting and curation rewards negatively impact everything else? Why do people only look at the potential good (which is largely unproven) and completely ignore the likely bad (which we can actually observe)?