RE: Stage One Foundation Structure Proposals | Community Feedback Needed!
I'm far from the expert here regarding your question, but here's my understanding. The foundation spoken of here is an attempt by those involved to produce a way to fund different projects that will make STEEM more attractive to investors, users, developers, etc. Whether it's necessary, will work, or manage to keep from getting too big or unwieldy are questions that are impossible to answer at this point.
Right now, the input is on the proposals that have been offered about how the foundation should be set up and how it should fund what it determines should be funded (which is also criteria it's working on).
How it will directly affect content creators is also a good question that is unknown at this point. The main distinction here is, it's not directly looking to help creators, but to further the cause of STEEM, which would then do something for creators, hopefully. If there's more incentive to use STEEM by more people, that supposedly would translate to more eyes on content.
There really isn't an opt out option because it's more of an opt in kind of thing. I guess the best way to put it is, if you want to at least have a say in how things go, then go for it. Otherwise, if it happens, it will happen however it happens. :)
Thanks for your answer. They should hire you! That was a lot easier to understand, for me at least.
I'm glad it helped, @drutter. Even if they were hiring for someone to essentially handle information and PR, I'd have to look at it long and hard. I'm like you, just here to produce content. But I've found it necessary to read, try to understand and keep track of what's going on with all of this other, because if anything comes of it, it will have bearing on the direction(s) STEEM takes. Even if little to nothing comes of it, that will have influence on things, too.
I feel, though, that there are more than enough people involved, and more than enough other people who seem to want to be involved when they don't like what's happening without being directly involved (for whatever reasons), that one more voice from the peanut gallery would either be drowned out and thus ineffective or redundant and therefore unnecessary. :)