Thank you for this reply!

So, then, they should be able to remove the TRX reward system just as easily as they instituted it, correct? It just seems like this has been let go on for too long. If it's coming back, great, let's bring it back. But it's HIGHLY misleading to new users, who I would be willing to bet are turned off when they see the rewards for TRX do not pay out—just as I have been, especially with the TRX price flirting with passing STEEM currently.

"In small talk, I read someone (can't remember who) stipulate it would take a hard fork to remove the TRX rewards system". I'm pretty sure that's not correct. First, I don't think they did a hardfork when they implemented the TRX rewards in the first place, and second, they paused it last year without a hardfork. I believe that the rewards were implemented with a read-only operation on the Steem blockchain, and some sort of smart contract or other distribution mechanism on the Tron blockchain.