Hi @buggedout, great post, I didn't notice this aspect of the SBD price before!

For utopian, I'd see this a bit as a corner case. As you say, there is a mix of different aspects. The amount of SBD burnt certainly would have counted as analysis for the open source project because that's clearly data from the block chain. The trading price with influences from various markets and market aspects as well as price forecasts are not that directly related to steem as the open source project on github. You would certainly have triggered internal discussions with this one and I can't promise if it would have made it through :)