things rarely go as planned. if steem was to be the main currency then rewards should be paid in that. its obvious that people are driving up the price of sbd because thats what their rewards are. so higher sbd price means higher rewards.

if SBD was to be for ecommerce it should have been used for that and not rewards. then one could trade steem they have earned for SBD and buy things with it from online stores. (alas this will require a whole new platform and reworking of the code.)