At the moment it feels a bit like splnds is acting like a cat trapped in the corner. Surely I agree with making a gaming systeem sustainable so it doesnt burn itself. Since I am a small player (but looong term player) hoovering around in gold league always I dont always have the ability to find how all of these things play out for the whale players. But what I do know is that there needs to be a balance in making a game attractive to players (because hey...if ya cant make a buck than maybe something else will) and also keeping it alive to not be drained at all times.
But with the profit of crypto going down for a while now and that they had to fire a lot of people, it feels like some aspects of the development are stagnating which is also not a winner. So if fattening the DAO would work on getting more devs on board and more stuff out then yeahhh..please do so.
Is the DAO so phat right now for the long term is the question?
DAO is well funded, that is NOT a problem.
Problem is the game is stagnant, and desperately need new players, as you correctly pointed out.