I think a interesting thing @peakd could maybe try is having tips be added to the total post reward, with the tooltip giving a breakdown of whats inflation and what is tips. Right now they are their own separate little indicator.

Also having an onchain core tipping function would be nice, right now there is just peakDs version, it should honestly be part of the core chain functionality so it's standardized.

Subscriptions can already be made because we have recurrent payments as part of the core chain functionality. It just if you want to gate content behind it you have to build that yourself. It's not something that could be made as a core chain feature since there are to many variables at play and a basic universal implementation would be largely useless for most peoples needs.

Like you said if people want to make an income they should do it properly like a actually business.