There staff of the institution is to asssist. Clearly a big leap backwards. If not enough good people have the time and energy to serve, scheme will deteriorate. Also, it is difficult to find personal assistance users for qualified staff positions. Availability of peer support depends on good and motivated members who will work in this field.
Solutions delegates a great deal responsibility to the individual member.
Thus, the cooperative is quite vulnerable, if some members do not live up to their duties and, for example, treat assistants unfairly. In that case, the cooperative's reputation suffers and labor unions might take action against us. STIL has presently 190 members. Also, once somebody has become a member we cannot really force them to seek help in managing their affairs, since STIL respects each member's right to run their own lives without interference from others - as long as they do not violate other member's rights. As to the limitations of the STIL model, we are still not finished with the job of building it.