Yes, I agree but that isn't happening. Thus defunding sends a clear message. The only things the DHF should be funding are.
Projects that operate hive that have expenses that need to be covered and can't generate revenue on their own. Training, back end development to help onboard more developers to make it easier, normal hive blockchain updates and so forth.
A year max in which a project, developers or application are built on hive and then must show they are capable to generating revenue. Even if it's not enough revenue to be fully funded at least proof that it's working and people are using it and there's value there. Then some funding can be allocated again to offset until the application becomes self funded.
There are MAJOR expenses and inflation right now that are keeping hive prices down in general. A hyper inflation happening because of the HBD 15% Payout (Which IMO should be 5% - 7% max) a little lower than having hive and being an active participant in the ecosystem with curation. And negative pressure from an extremely over spend happy DHF that is showing little to no return what so ever.
No investor in their right mind is going to take hive seriously until these core things are fixed. That means no new developers and more importantly no new investors because as an investor you'd seriously be shooting yourself in the foot hive just doesn't make sense on the investor front.
This is beyond the scope of this post or VP but I can say that right now there is a lot of work that's going to be done in relation to building out the optimization processes and general management that dapps can then leverage on their own to improve their own performance and efficiency in relation to DHF distributions. Crypticat is helping with his expertise on getting a methodology off the ground. Can't control what other people do but can give them the tools to do it better.
I do like the sounds of that! Thank you for brining it to my attention I'll be keeping an eye out for it.