Thanks for the comment, had to go refresh my memory on cosmos. Building sidechains is good, but it still requires having many node operators to be decentralized. It's almost like starting a new blockchain which can be very hard.
The big selling point with Steemit's SMTs was that I could create an SMT myself without any experience, just a few clicks. I will be very bummed out if we don't get something like that. Whether layer 2 or layer 1, we need a UX like that.
Few clikcs for an SMT, no sidechains needed. Simple and efficient.
And we will probably get that experience :)