If there are no donations it would mean there is no interest, if there is no interest, maybe... it will not be done... ?

I understand your point of view as a CEO of a team of developers but we need to start at some point thinking in the consequences of our actions on the ecosystem.

We should not Tax content creators it will hurt the ecosystem, most new users not buying bidbots votes are rarely making above 1 $ in rewards and this goes in detriment of the user base as they migrate back to traditional social or move to clone chains with promises of more Fairness the less users we have, the less buzz about steem, the lower the price and the worse for everyone of us.

I think we all should go and read the original White Paper

First it hasn't been updated in ages and second we have strayed away from it, we are at a point we it doesn't resembles to the promise in that document.