This is an interesting development and I look forward to contributing where I can. If feasible I think it would make sense to deprecate Sprout at launch.
Not to get too off track but just to be clear on the Founders’ Reward stuff I don’t think anyone has ever expressed a desire to extend that? What I, among others, have suggested is a new development fund as a % of the block reward managed by the Foundation to fund continued development. This is critically different to simply extending the payouts to founders/investors.
That being said the focus on community mining is a good one and one that hopefully will benefit the upstream project.