I am glad to hear that, if there are not enough funds from donations it might mean that there is no general interest in having it done.
The alternative was the equivalent to taxing at the source authors to pay for development of the money making machine, when authors as is barely see any interest since the introduction of bidbots to the STEEM equation.
Maybe one day big and small stake holders will realize that with no users, no content and with no content no value on our beloved blockchain.