@apshamilton, thanks for an interesting analysis! :)
however it seems like somewhat contradictory to focus mostly or only on the technical solutions, which focus only on Cost price - while expecting that it would help the increase of Sell price. or am I missing something?
(further elaborated here in my post, inspired by things discussed in this post)
RE: Properly Decentralising Steem & Cutting Costs by Witnesses running their own Servers & APIs