I feel that Steemit Inc should deliver what they originally promised. Since many people invested on that premise, the stakeholders (especially the late 2017-2018 investors) have already paid their part for SMTs. Steemit Inc needs to pay for this.
My concern about paying for future worker proposal system is that there doesn't seem to be any real intent to quantify ROI evaluation. I get the impression that in the future the community will rally to get some proposal done without quantifying (with real data) how the proposal will pay back the stakeholders investment. This will be a doomed business strategy.
A business strategy to pay for work because at least work will be getting done is a terrible idea. There needs to be a real reason to pay for work.