I dont see how that's any different from someone coding in features. Having exchanges to trade hive is more important than any single feature added recently. There's no point to hive if you can't trade it,
I personally support a proposal for this but I think it would be more fair to pay every major contributor to the creation of hive and the battle against the hostile takeover(perhaps on a longer term not to ask for a really high HBD amount/day). Especially when the amount requested is about the same as the average wage in the US. ( I used the US because HBD is based on USD)