Arweave has some issues before I want to use it, for one, why do you need another token? Why couldn't you just pay in lightning or bitcoin or monero?

Even if a token is needed, there should be an atomic swap and/or $wAR on liquid or something. 

Also, you said you're trusting the gateway. How do you know the gateway is trustworthy? I'm not aware of any coms channels to talk to the gateway with. 

Lastly, wouldn't the two in combination be ideal? Like a blossom server for a small community that does a weekly/monthly zip and backup to arweave? Or even blossom sever connected to a relay with conditions to save to arweave (x number of likes/zaps/renotes)?