I believe the mix we see now is due to the decisive blockrades votes that were withdrawn. He's got a powerful stake and his decision alone sinks or floats lots of us developers funding like that.
Am writing a post about the whole thing here currently. When I started looking into it thinking a trend of "favourtism" existed perhaps but found it was other large stakeholder or massive majority votes keeping the currently funded proposals (besides the HBD price ones) in the holy zone. I was certainly discouraged as well man but am going to trudge through it, keep coding on my stuff and build a concise post about it in hopes that greater light is shone on the situation, and more people can understand the ripple effect this seemingly innocent experiment in HBD stabilization might have on the network as a whole.