I would agree. But how do you get 36% of the staked HIVE (more actually, if we account inactives without proxy) to vote on a proposal? What I see going on next, if this continues, is a push for HP stakeholders to proxy their governance vote, maybe for a small incentive (a platform already does that for a good while, but not with terrible success, apparently). So, we will probably have more HP voting on governance, but a strong hit to decentralization, indirectly.
And proposals will still get funded, eventually...
If ecency can get funded, any other reasonable one can get, too.
Maybe. Not everyone has a highly used front end that reminds and encourages users to vote on their proposal (I don't know if ecency does that, but others do). Not that this would work for every stakeholder. For some, it is an annoyance, especially if the reminder is continuously displayed.