I like it.

1/ As long as you can still comment than it’s still egalitarian.

2/ It would be nice if you could only zap a fixed amount with one press of a button. Ex. 21 sats. And posts were filtered based on sats total. This way it shows real exchange of value. It’s less about the author making money, more about high quality value signaling.

3/ you can try it for 3 months and if it’s a failure add back likes. If nothing ppl will at least talk about it :)