I agree with several others here. As a writer and producer of content, I have noticed that when someone discovers my work, they do a backlog reading of it. If they are unable to comment, that is very bad. It reduces this site to the casino style experience that hardcore readers dislike. The more intelligent crew will not like that the backlogged articles are in the dead zone. You basic nullify value that existed once. It's a very short-sighted, bad idea to think of Type 2 content as dead.
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I agree with this. My aim has been to build up a body of work that will last and, gradually, build up a readership. I also think that cutting off payments after 30 days is based on a misunderstanding of how content, broadly-defined, gets its value. If you think of the power law in book or record sales, it's not just about an immediate flurry of earnings - the titles at the extreme end have serious staying power. I went into a shop at a railway station a couple days ago and it still had a display full of all the Harry Potter novels. If Steemit can't measure, and redistribute, the value from that kind of durably popular work, then why would the next JK Rowling post here rather than with a traditional publisher?