Okay, if committee members are listening (thank you), then here is how I would suggest you could please most parties.
--Largely keep the present fee structure, which supports referral fees and therefore enables marketing. To that default structure, make the following modifications.
--Lower trading fees as much as possible. (We need that business.)
--Direct the team to create a merchant identification process, perhaps at registration (Perhaps limit the monthly number of transfers by individuals; a higher number of transactions would trigger merchant pricing.). Resolve that once this has been created, merchants will be charged a percentage-based fee, while peer-to-peer transactions between individuals will be cheaper.
--In the meantime (while the merchant identification mechanism is being developed), run a short-term "sales price promotion" with extremely low transfer fees on bitCNY. On February 28, 2016, or as soon as the merchant mechanism is created and P2P fees lowered, the bitCNY promotion would expire. Until then, it's a way to bring us more users, and if they try it, hopefully they'll find much more here.
I'm open to other suggestions, but this is a distillation of everything I have heard so far that makes sense. Rather than a midpoint compromise that doesn't achieve anyone's aims, what these changes would do is to (1) salvage some funding for referral fees and marketing, (2) make the exchange more attractive to traders, and (3) give low-fee advocates both an immediate tool and the promise of longer term, lower transfer fees for individuals.
Finally, KEEP IT for a few months, making only urgent changes as needed. Let this thing develop and let us promote BitShares without continuously moving the goal posts and changing the expectations.
EDIT: Again, thanks for listening. I know you all have BitShares' best interests in mind, as do I, whether or not we always agree on everything.