This issue I have is these heart symbol ‘the community requested this’ features. Were all of those put up for NNS vote? If not, why? And who is deciding what community requested features to prioritize? Bc I know we (Psychedelic) have requested features, I know Jordan Last has suggested many important features/improvements, DSCVR, and others, and a lot of those don’t seem to be on your list. ‘Anybody with a twitter account’ should not be the bar for who is allowed to influence the entire roadmap of the protocol, that right should be earned. And I don’t think the foundation should have unilateral authority to decide which community suggested features get prioritized. That should be the decision of the community/NNS.
So here’s one suggestion. Make that process transparent. Each community requested feature should include WHO is requesting it (the most prominent 1 or 2 projects or people in the space requesting it), along with an explanation of why and how urgently they need it for their use case. And then let the community/NNS decide and prioritize which ones to work on.
It’s not so much what the foundation is working on that’s the issue. The issue is more so how the foundation is deciding to work on these things and how the foundation is making these important roadmap decisions in a silo and then hiding behind hand-wavy NNS votes or excuses like ‘the community requested it!’ to justify it. That needs to stop.