It’s a shame more thought was not put into it sooner. With an option for creators to choose to enable and get a cut or disable. If I’m driving traffic to my posts and those people do not have an account to upvote my content it does me no good unless I have other monetization means. As far as them driving up the price of the Steem though development well there a reason so many other dapps and stuff is having to be done by the user base. People tend to not really mind stuff when they have an options.