My take is that [steem-problems-can-t-be-fixed-with-hard-forks](https://steemit.com/steem/@edicted/steem-problems-can-t-be-fixed-with-hard-forks)

There is no reason to be hard-forking Steem for this.  
Steem needs to be simpler.  

There is no excuse to tamper with the foundation of the platform simply to allocate funds somewhere. 
The entire point of second layer tokens is to fund these side projects.  

### Any talk of reallocating money on a fundamental level is automatically going to lead me to believe that the people in charge are trying to siphon more money to themselves.