I love the thread b/t you and @danmaruschak.

To me, the most illuminating thing pointed out there was:

The more complicated the change, the less likely it is to be implemented, though.

That's indicative of a more general issue, which is just that there is too little development happening (not just code, but business, marketing, community, operations.) I know there is a beginner community, a few active nodes, etc. etc. But in the end, there really is too little substance to the whole shebang.

That being solved would at least allow for a chance that some mechanism for managing over- and under-valuation, scamming, prospecting etc. be managed.

I don't know enough about an ecosystem like this to know what attracts the right kind of devs, or what barriers need to be removed for onboarding them into the STEEM devops, and so on. But if that were a well oiled machine, all the details you two talked about would be ironed out, even if in fits and starts, or iteratively over time with experimentation.