Public access front end so that normies can test drive the steem blockchain.. If there's a wall built around us it drives away potential users and leaves them feeling like steem is an insurmountable skill set and exclusive crypto clubhouse, they would not be wrong for feeling this way.

Also mobile first design, I'm also not a blockchain engineer but I am a human being on earth nearing 2020 and guess what!? Catering to desktop and PC users on a supposedly innovative technology is an extremely impotent approach. That doesn't require an MBA or even a kindergarten diploma to figure out.