Without a doubt the most important part of the upcoming hardfork ... long term funding source of the SPS. I too am in favor of funds coming from the inflation pool.

I hope people fully get the importance of your post. We need to move away from Steemit Inc. That doesn’t mean they are bad or incompetent or whatever, it just means our blockchain needs to be consistent with our entire message of decentralization. To practice what we preach here means we have to move away from Steemit Inc as the main contributor to the blockchain code, etc. We still need/want Steemit Inc’s participation but we also want all of our other developers as well and these people need to be directly rewarded for their efforts. Those rewards have to come from somewhere ... and somewhere stable, aka not donations. That stable source of income is the inflation pool. Without a doubt.