Great comment. You've already touched on one of my proposed solutions, and that is even if we do nothing about the peg we could make the curation reward a 50/50 split of STEEM/SBD and it would help that Stakeholder group.

I agree that pegging back SBD to $1 USD right now will piss off a lot of people, who might leave. But what if it was (properly) pegged to a higher amount? Why can't we have a stable currency for the merchants AND make sure the Authors don't lose out from it?