There are so many valid concerns in relation to this topic, thank you for sharing the ideas so far.

I can't help but think of the makers of this great invention called Steemit.com as parents of this almost one year old baby... I strongly believe that there's a great need for them to have a lot of power in the sayings around the evolution of their baby. this said, I also believe that for any children, it is important for the parents to learn to listen to their children. Therefore, I can only with the idea of waiting for a while before moving on with proposal 3 and 4. In itself, this is qualitatively speaking very important for our platform. the influx of new people on here may have hugely profound and negative impact on the sustainability of the platform if the parents loose of their control over the direction of the main values and necessary road we are finding ourselves on.

I can't help but think of what happens when a government want to take over a region by sending a super high ration of people voting in their own direction knowing perfectly that this region contains mostly people that are actually going against their grain... I talk about voting here as I don't want to be too heavy in the discussion, there are far worse example of that in history.

I simply wouldn't want our platform to loose sight of its original objectives because of public pressures. Thanks for sharing this important post with us all and sure hope we'll all be able to have a positively constructive dialogue about this touchy by necessary matter.

All for one and one for all! Namaste :)