Well there are separate issues there. There is how much it costs, and there is preventing abuse. They have said that solving both of those are priorities, so I expect we will see some type of proposal relatively soon. I don't think making it cost more though is going to make the streamlining process go any faster though. Regardless of how much it costs, they will probably need to continue manually reviewing accounts until they are able to solve the problem of automated approval (with abuse prevention) programmatically.
Separate from the dev issues though, I do think that we should at least consider either raising the fee or raising the block size limit in order to deal with the bandwidth problem. I'm not 100% opposed to making bandwidth something you 'earn' (or buy) but we would have a lot of work to do as far as explaining and onboarding users into that experience if it is going to be how it is. The way it is right now, I think it is harming the user experience.