I think we should immediately reduce all inflation by 50%. Also, we can take away that 10% going to the Hive Proposal System (DAO) funding when we decided how to put the 65million Hive into it (this can probably cover it for several years). We can give the 10% to SP holders in the meantime. It can be recovered from the reward pool or whatever later when necessary.
I just feel that those in favor of reduced inflation have practically no voice. But it kinda makes sense given people are used to governments and public spending being out of control in nations...so why not Hive, too?
I agree, at least we need to burn downvoted rewards instead of returning them to the reward pool. Also, witness rewards are too high (top witnesses making 2k/month, even while the price of running servers (primary, backup, seed node) is less than 500$/month).
Also, DAO will get over 83M HIVE in the next few years. If funds are converted in 10 years, it's still almost 23k HIVE/day. We could burn almost 1/3 of the supply!