Well according to @ned, @Steemit Inc. has paid Millions of Dollars on STEEM development & Steemit.com, and this I truly do believe he has, but how much does it cost? And how many Senior Developers are needed? and how many are really needed?
According to PayScale.com the average super-developer cost something like $100,000 a year per person divided between Salary, Bonuses, Profit Sharing and Commission.
If Steemit INC. Pay every developer this amount and have 20 of them, they do pay $2 Million per year, but is that really needed?
I dare to ask this question because I aced Business, Home Economics, Chemistry and in life, I have more successes than failures because I knew what I wanted to do, and what I was maximum willing to pay for it.
Let me also add - the world is still full of qualified workers lacking something to do who would be happy to land a $50K a year job even if the average is higher just to get a stepping stone in Cryptoland and their work evaluated by everyone.
I do not know how @Ned runs @Steemit, it is not my business nor my company - I am not a shareholder. However we are both businessmen with business experience. My company being @Fyrstikken INC. and his company being @Steemit INC. so at least we know we are business smart enough to stay in business.
The #1 issue for most of us is still FREE, FAST & EASY Account Creation so we can onboard our friends, and them their friends etc. We do not want, nor do we need a burning-system requiring a bitshares-type faucet to do this job. The first solution was the best solution, let users spend their own hardware mining their own account name.
So if we could get that done first, we can get something else done second.