$Patchy

Charles I just watched your live stream. Let me preface this by saying I value your comments and what you say. This is a large part of why i invested the best years of my life into Cardano. I still believe in the long term mission of Cardano. I still build here every day. While listening though, I couldn't help but be alarmed about the lack of self awareness. I am sorry to put that so bluntly but i respect you so I'll cut right to it. You made claims that basically we need to support the ecosystem builders, etc. Do you not understand that you are actively blocking us from funding because almost the entire NCL, or at least a LARGE portion of it, is directly tied to IO initiatives as well as FE initiatives? There is no pie left. I am not arguing that you are deserving of treasury funds. I voted YES on multiple proposals. My issue is that you weren't willing to renegotiate on any of your proposals. You weren't willing to listen to the community and take line items out we deemed unnecessary. There was no room for revision, that is simply put a fact. I am not your advisory, IO is a business that provides real value to Cardano. Dropping 1 item from the research proposal could of kept TapTools in business. That simply put, is a decision. We are all working with the same budget. The proposers need to be just as responsible as the DReps. We all know what the NCL is. Whether this was your intent (I highly doubt) or not, it's the reality we currently sit in. Many of us went through Intersect, the MBO we all agreed to join and use as a center point for our community, and adhere to their process. Many of us will likely not get funded due to that, following the process and mandate of the community, wild how that works. To be clear, you certainly are not solely at fault here. Draper will certainly help the future of Cardano, what about the current? CBDAO is currently a NO vote in intersect...Catalyst is likely never coming back, it needed reform but to simply delete it for a year was basically killing small biz on Cardano, and hope for opportunity. Our business arm Emurgo has all the voting power, surely they will vote YES on more business proposals with their 1B ada right? All this to say, we need to figure it the hell out. I agree with many of your points made today but i truly think it's a top down effort. You guys set the example. When we lose focus, the entire ecosystem feels it. Let's get back to what matters and lock in. Sorry if this comes off wrong I am just super passionate and tired of not being heard by the people who have power here.