I 100% agree, @dominicwilliams. I’ve tried to defend DFINITY against those unproductive witch hunts several times in my short tenure here, and I’m a big believer in both the IC and the smart people behind it. I don’t think there is any better team in the industry. I also don’t believe in committees to decentralize power, since those inevitably just result in a forced reduction in diversity of perspectives and a tense power struggle to artificially come to a collective prioritization. Like cryptographers, I believe that this problem can mostly be solved by math. I actually want to make your life easier, not more difficult!
But how do you even know if you are optimizing priorities given your perpetual scarcity of resources to fulfill those priorities? You would first need to know how far off DFINITY’s priorities are from the community’s priorities. This implies that a collective prioritization process is in place to measure this gap on a regular basis, which is not the case. I recognize that DFINITY is an independent organization that has the right to have different priorities from the community in allocating its scarce resources. However, if you can’t see how far off you are from the community’s priorities, then you will only see more painful threads from passionate IC champions like @lei in the future.