I agree that the whales do seem to circle jerk the DAO considerably, Especially the multiple proposals by some 'devs' who are asking for questionable amounts of compensation for questionable amounts of 'work'.
I also dislike the number of 'running cost' proposals. If you going to run a service than work out a way to pay for it other than the DAO, Can't be having constant drains on it like that, Should be used for hiring devs and producing the service more than paying to keep it running.
DAO in its current state is a shitshow. But... i DGAF no more.