I think you have put in a lot of the words in that. Am not sure, if there's anyone who would not prefer the ads free version of CMC over the present ads-infested one.
One thing is sure, if CMC will not do this, then soon enough a competing firm will take the advantage and the Steem blockchain and beat them to it. I have very high hopes that by the launch of SMT, will have a lots of web based applications build on the Steem blockchain that we will not need to look outside for most of what we need.