This is a proposal that came from the community after much discussion about how to fix survival mode. I've been quite busy working on other projects, so I'm not fully up to speed on this one, but for full disclosure if this proposal doesn't pass and no one puts up anything that does, I will be drafting a proposal for survival mode.
The proposal that I draft will be quite simple: Does the SPS DAO want to fund rewards for Survival Mode? I'll work out the numbers to keep things in line with what the team was doing for a specific amount of my time, likely a year. If that proposal fails as well the team will likely just sunset survival mode.