Honestly I consider this as off topic and a distraction. HBD exists and there is no consensus among stakeholders to get rid of it. It is unlikely there will be such a consensus any time soon.

I'm aware that in the past, like maybe four years ago, there was some musing by high level people involved with Steem that perhaps it should be gotten rid of, for reasons that were never persuasive broadly, which is why it didn't happen. The idea may linger on, but it is a zombie that is hard to kill, not anything that is seriously going to happen.

Since it exists, I'm proposing how to make it work better and add more value (by channeling demand to HIVE).