So sad.
One of the negative things I see is that it's really just going to move the discussion away from the steam site and to kickstarter or some other fund raising platform. The process for devs will be basically the same, except instead of getting votes from people on steam who say they would buy the game, they will be getting 'votes' from people funding their kickstarter campaign to pay to be on steam. Another downside for that for devs is that steam recently updated their rating system so that games purchased through kickstarter and the like don't count in the product rating system anymore, making even the most popular games purchased through kickstarter and not directly through steam get much less exposure on the actual steam site.