Hey, @exyle.

Now that people are turning the corner from posts that shout and threaten STEEM or shout and threaten those who shout and threaten STEEM, it is nice to take a look at what was intended for RCs, and to realize that in the end, yes, it will be better for all of us, since we'll more or less be 'paying' for what we use, rather than potentially paying for what we use, plus someone else, or the reverse—not even paying for ourselves.

In my mind, whether there's costs that are visible to see, like now, or costs that are invisible, as was the case with bandwidth, is probably more to the heart of the matter when it comes to why people are upset (other than not being able to function at all).

I don't think people care that much how things are done, and I think most would agree that a fairer allocation of costs is good. What I don't think most want to do is worry about whether they can do anything or not, or try to somehow figure out if they have enough RCs to function, period.

There's a minimum amount that people need to be able to do, regardless of their RCs, in order to do anything meaningful here. Time available to it should be the main limiting factor, not whether or not you can interact to a certain level on the site, so that you can grow your account enough so that you can build up to the desired level.

Investing, no matter how much people might wish others to do, is not going to be an option for a lot of people here. So, effectively, they're the ones without the gas to get where they need to go once the 10 x patch is lifted.