I would say that the Almanak proposal is trying to achieve a similar outcome (bring in more fees and lower the deficit) and is very much within the spirit of this post. You can track the Almanak proposal on the following post:
note that for now, this is only targeting the wBTC, DAI, ETH, and LINK pools. Regarding the deficit, you can track those for any v3 pool or protocol wide via https://analytics.bancor.network