Questions and concerns about DFINITY Foundation working "beyond core protocol"

[lastmjs]

Sorry to interrupt any other conversations going on here, but I wanted to provide feedback and thank @diegop for typing all of this up.

@diegop

We think the perception here is understandable (we created it!), but not quite right - many projects that people think DFINITY is working on are a tiny minority compared to cryptography or distributed systems work. As stated at the latest global R&D meeting, we will provide more frequent updates on the roadmap and hopefully in a format that gives better insight in what the teams are working on in what order of priority, but here are some numbers on the number of people and priorities from July 2022 :

I’m so happy to see this table and get more transparency into how DFINITY is allocating its resources. I want to emphasize that I wanted the community to strongly consider DFINITY’s role in things, and getting more transparency was a key point to understanding more. Now that I can see more clearly where the resources are going, I do feel better. It seems there could be up to 20% of resources that I personally feel are misallocated (again, UP TO 20%, probably not a full 20%), but I don’t see a deeply existential problem like I feared might have existed here. I do think on a case-by-case basis there are things I think DFINITY should or should not focus on, and I believe a guiding principle should be to focus more on the protocol layer.