@vandeberg, I think discussions would be more productive if you had them with witnesses and a couple of guys who thought a lot about steem economics (like @donkeypong or @trafalgar etc..). Opening this discussion to everyone doesn't seem to help, judging by the quality of comments under this post. Just informing the community about the changes would be enough, when and if they will come.
We (witnesses) have such conversations all the time, but feedback from "general public" is important. Nobody is perfect, we make mistakes too, we can overlook something.
We can do ours best to make good decisions for the sake of the platform, but in the end we represent SP holders who vote for us. Of course we can't expect that every user to be an expert in Steem internals, but they don't have to. They "hire" witnesses.
TL;DR: it's good to have a feedback, even if it's not that great (of quality) ;-)