They can then be taken and incorporated into marketing, into websites, into whatever the community sees fit.

Yes... Again i want to emphasize that the top couple stakeholders need to push that forth. Nothing happens simply because its a good idea.

Regarding SMTs, we may very well see an expansion of this concept.

Awesome. The thing about SMTs is that they were a acknowledged and relatively understood concept by most of the community. It wasnt because Steemit.inc did a good job at relaying the message, but rather out of community despair and a need to search for a "savior". SMTs were just that. People understood that concept because they needed to hang on to a hope, something that would change everything for the better.
Steem before the end was a desperate time, something everyone was so fast to forget.
Thats why i implore you guys to expand on that topic and realize it in the same sense it was realized by the community in the time during the Steemit episode.
We havent managed to shed the Steem legacy just yet.

The rest i wont comment on. We wont agree, but i really dont want to steer the convo in that direction because it wont lead to anything concrete and i dont want that because "concrete" is what we need now.