Thanks for the response. Basically it is tough to say without a definition of what the essential "basic tasks" are, how much it costs to perform them, and what is the appropriate reward for performing them (I do not believe people should simply break even and do this for free). If we knew that amount, then we could decide if there is a surplus of witness rewards that could be used to fund worker proposals. Thanks for explaining this so clearly. As far as figuring out the tasks and rewards... I think I'll leave that one to the experts.
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During the process where Steemit cut the fees paid to the worker, I believe that pay cut was justified in part with the idea that witnesses should no longer be expected to be coders, marketers, etc. Of course, up and coming witnesses looking to break into the top 20 still will often promise to do more, in hopes of getting elected.
Worker proposals will hopefully put this idea to rest and allow for a more rationalized payment system where witness pay is just for the tasks that all witnesses perform and worker proposal pay is for doing other forms of useful work like running API servers.
This has a distinct advantage because it allows the payment amount to be tailored to fit the task instead of doing a "one payment size fits all" which is obviously never going to be fair.