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RE: Leveraging Steem clones for lower development costs
[...] is this a bad thing for Steem [...]
It may be a bad thing for Steem, exactly Steem, in the sense that it may decrease usership and so on, but it's not a bad thing for the idea of Steem. I have yet to hear a convincing argument as to why Steem as it stands today is the best version of the idea of Steem there can be. In fact 20 hardforks kinda proves that point.
I've never understood maximalism, except in the case where the alternative is genuinely worse.
I see all ideas as a work in progress, as well as all development. The idea of Steem is decent and seeing it propagate in different forms is likely a good thing all up.
What if Steem became the investment platform that drove development of applications that could service a host of other interfaces. An incubator of sorts.
Technically that is what it has done for the other platforms already. The Steem blockchain code is battle tested, and though I would not call it "hardened" it's definitely production worthy and it works. So any new chain using the code inherits all of that, essentially using what has come before as investment in their new tweak (if it even is a tweak, some are simply someone else controlling things from what I can gather).
Although I think you mean it more explicitly, and in that case I think that can definitely work too, as long as people here are not too precious about Steem maximalism. Some definitely are, but many whales are pragmatic above those kinds of thoughts. It could work, do you have any particular structures in mind?