I do not know what it will look like when it is out of beta, but I am hoping it doesn't mess with too many rules and instead lets communities form their own rules of governance along with their own steem-backed front end.
I already am in talks with people in our community who have done guild management type things in the past and we all seem to agree the way forward is to let communities form and manage themselves by having their own front end website/forums but that have steem blockchain in the background (so upvotes will still pay).
I am not sure how much you have read about steem on here but I assure you if you dig you can see lots of cool stuff going on here already. :)