I think you still vote most of them proposals. People still have most of theirs doubts with your votes. Whole problem that people prefer to burn DHF funds than spend them on projects might be weird voting on your side. Do you have post explaining your votes? You don't ever make mistakes? Any case that you voted but realized they just trick you? You vote proposals that have something like 100 votes total and your vote is 90% of power, proposal passed, no one really vote it, just you, and it continues year by year. Don't you see how it becomes too easy for some projects to get your vote and they don't even try to get votes from their own users? For some projects we can doubt they have users.
Maybe whole problem with lack of activity in governance voting is connected with this centralization of voting power, where projects don't need votes from users, care less about users, whole thing becomes mostly imagination between small group of people pretending that they do something.
Over spending, low work efficiency, situation when it's better to not finish work but continue it over years to extract more money from government, are very basic issues with governance. There is 99% chance it exist here. We shouldn't deny it, but improve our awareness about it. Possible you completely ignore these problems, and people at the ends prefer to burn DHF money cause they can see all the waste while you don't.
Generally I would prefer to not burn DHF money, but distribute it better way. Maybe we should create some metrics and track some data, cause sometimes I think projects intentionally avoid statistics cause it looks very bad. Would prefer discussion about these proposals, maybe you shouldn't be so consistent with voting on some projects, but let them prove their value, let them ask users for vote.
That comes from someone who made some applications on this blockchain. One of them distributed something like 200k HIVE to users(2 years), and saved much more. I made a proposal for that one, very cheap, something like 25k$ per year, compared to 200k$ generated for users, very cheap. You didn't vote it. You probably don't know about it at all. I abandoned project half way cause didn't want to drop another 25k$ from my own money to fund it. How you recognize good project or bad? How you inform community about your decision? Cause I have very clear statistics, metrics about my project and you can compare it to projects you vote, only if you want to.
Whole thing becomes political struggle between conservative approach to spent less and progressive approach to spend more, and possible problem is created by huge centralized power that doesn't try to reach between these options, but always pick one(currently overspending). I talked few times before that eventually @blocktrades flips to other side, and we fund nothing. But reaching middle ground here will be very exceptional, hard to imagine, requires much more work, thinking etc. Probably most beneficial for network, but who cares at this point.