Usage sets the price, so increase that and voila.
More deployments in KSM should be the thing to look for, you can change the economic engine but the only thing that will make Kusama fly is usage. we can change the Validator count etc… al solutions that will deliver sooner or later the same result.
Usage, usage, usage. Hope to see a Kusama that is all about running experiments and discovering new ways of doing things at scale on a production platform.
Open system like this are hard to fund, because the ownership part of things, VC expect 10x in 5 years, open system take longer to populate through marketing.