Also, why the convoluted fees and process to acquire a "premium user name"? I mean, even for people who want to "buy" a premium name, it's a chore... Take the following BitSharesTalk Topic: "Catch 22: How do you create a premium name".

Some might argue fees are small, but they also fluctuate wildly esp. as bts prices increase, and there's a potentially long delay before fee adjustments (LTM was nearly US$500 at one point). But what's the "purpose" of some of these fees, except to "extract" more money from users. It's certainly not about "bandwidth" or anything, but I do believe it's another impediment to increased adoption.

If I wanted to get hit up by wacky round-about fees left right and center, I could always go hang out at the DMV or some other government office in the real world!