Hi @Lorimer and @wpb and thanks for your inputs.
Since this is already a huge thread and mainly focused on the voting grants, I suggest that the conversation around incentives is moved elsewhere. In the coming months we plan to discuss how known neurons can better be incentivized and I think it would be best to holistically consider the aspects you brought up together with this.
I think I understand most of your points.
I suggest that as part of this conversation we also think about to what extent we want to try to influence the voting behavior by governance design and to what extent this is more about processes around the voting (making it a habit that new voters see the options who to follow, find good known neurons etc - as someone mentioned perhaps supported by the frontends). I say this because I also think governance is already fairly complex and I fear that by including more incentive systems etc we don’t make it easier to understand. But let’s discuss it when we get there!