I have argued that long and hard,earlier in my presence here, particularly. The reality is that maintenance of governance is a bird in the hand, a guarantee of ROI. Cash is king. Prudence actually argues against taking risks when you can profit from your capital without adding risks, and that's the situation that DV's enable the well staked to maintain.
To enable distribution that is how the token can gain popularity and therefore rise in price, the whales have to part with their majority possession of the stake on the platform. To gamble on the moon they have to discard their control of governance, and that's simply imprudent.