I think it would be an interesting addition to opengov if treasury proposals could be voted on with a scalar instead of a trinary vote (Aye, Nay, Abstain).
An interesting case would be this referendum which is retroactive, but value-based instead of effort-based in its argumentation.
This would allow voters to express more meaningful budgetary opinions. If a proposal appears too expensive, but generally welcome, votes could express the acceptable budget.
For such a vote to be binding, it would need to be enacted according to the winning amount. If the sliders are not a binding vote, then why not just facilitate this
But there are open questions:
- how do we prevent slow-drain attacks on the treasury? (someone who holds enough tokens for the support-threshold of a track could always get away with a non-zero payout
- what if the proposing team does not accept to do the work for less money? Would it have to decline the payout?