So your concern is the inefficiencies introduced by creators who never claim their cash?
If the tokens were automatically returned to the consumer after a period of, for example, 6 months or so, and redistributed to creators via the usual method, would that alleviate your concerns?
BAT white paper and roadmap aim at full decentralization. Ethereum is not ready yet, either on scalability or anonymity via ZKP. We're working in phases using ZKP off chain accounting and single-monthly-transaction on, no fingerprint of users or their supported sites.
We're moving this into a whole new realm of problem then. Ethereum smart contracts have been shown as at the very least possible to get wrong by coding incorrectly, at this point multiple times.
I'm not sure taking a straightforward and easily reasoned about process that the courts could easily handle and moving it to something enforced by a programming language subject to bugs that are largely unable to be handled by courts is necessarily a step in the right direction. At least not until there's a lot more vetting of Ethereum and a much better and more secure ecosystem to call upon.
If the tokens were automatically returned to the consumer after a period of, for example, 6 months or so, and redistributed to creators via the usual method, would that alleviate your concerns?