a worthy writeup.
if you could get to a point where your proposal (or your proposal becomes a part of) an initiative that can directly shift the metrics that matter - those metrics are debatable, but lets just say coretime demand - then things will become more objective.
RFC: Incentive Pools is directionally right, but is optimising for a fairly narrow outcome, rather than a more general ‘public good’.
It is however a promising sign.
The more discussions move in this direction, the closer we will get to something approaching positive, rather than zero sum games.
sadly right now there is no incentive alignment between proposers and token holders, so it’s ultimately all performative.