I think PAL is a proof of concept for a greater ecosystem. While we can all sit and knit pick the UI and what it brings to the user experience its really looking at the concept through the eye of a needle.

It's showing that it's possible to turn STEEM into a website CMS for your own community and while at the moment we replicating the steem front end it won't always be this way.

Projects coming on board will want to use their own designs, pull in their own data from the blockchain and create different content experiences as well as reward structures.

If we want steem to mean more to more people I think this is a good way fo taking it forward and breaking up the experience into niche sites that have their own way of running things and governance and further pushing for decentralisation