Hi, thanks for the archive, but so far in 6/7 years neither Hive, nor Steem have failed - fingers crossed!
There is no preferred front end to use for this project, no. Any front end that can post to the community and that can accept tags/images is fine.
@resonator currently has a delegation of 877,543 Hive Power, on top of the 6773 Hive Power held by the account itself at present. So the available rewards are substantial.
There is no layer 2 token associated to this project yet, though we may look to create a custom token in the future. We may look to exchange some Hive for the VYB token as VYB does not support downvotes, which is a positive when dealing with controversial topics.
VYB is an excellent choice. The alt-coin seem to suffer from a lack of use cases beyond the initial interface funded by the tribe.
Dedicated curation accounts is the best use case for most of the alt-coins.