I saw what you said on Twitter to that regard. It's getting pushed out, just not as quickly as it would be if it was a corporate entity pushing it. Once this document here is finalized, we need to still pretty it up and only then can stakeholders or whomever has pull elsewhere put it out.
I agree on the SMTs and on the previous state of Steem. It's getting done and it will be done. @blocktrades is the best person to speak on these further, but he did put most of his ideas on paper in that post I linked in the main post above. Right now we're at the part where optimization and basic controls must be put in place and then we can innovate. Kind of how when you buy a house you got to get the subfloor fixed and only then you can start installing the granite countertop.