Honestly I consider this as off topic and a distraction. HBD exists and there is no consensus among stakeholders to get rid of it. It is unlikely there will be such a consensus any time soon.
I'm aware that in the past, like maybe four years ago, there was some musing by high level people involved with Steem that perhaps it should be gotten rid of, for reasons that were never persuasive broadly, which is why it didn't happen. The idea may linger on, but it is a zombie that is hard to kill, not anything that is seriously going to happen.
Since it exists, I'm proposing how to make it work better and add more value (by channeling demand to HIVE).
I highly suspected that to be the real reason. Thanks for the answer.
EDIT: On related note, great to see that you're still as committed to this project as always - I've always really respected you, all the way back to the early bitcointalk days! Good luck with this current proposal and everything else you set out to do. Cheers
Thank you for the words of support.