They skew the market, even if everyone is 100% honest and 100% competent.
They're trying to split it up into smaller packages, which helps a lot, but the problem remains that they have to make strategic choices about how to spend a large pot of money.
Central planning by committee is inherently inefficient.
I agree. It won't scale. However right now for those of us who aren't devs and can't competently pay attention its a great way to funnel a little money to some people doing good work. Just need to trust Odell & Co, which seems reasonable for now, until there is a reason not to.
Just need to pay attention to the fact that it skews the market and discourages competition from the people who didn't receive grants.
It also leaves the people who received grants less independent, which stifles their creativity.
Some of us are patrons of particular projects, but there's no way that we can even things out because we simply have less money, even though there are many more of us.
I also think it creates a false expectation, that this work should pay high dividends immediately, but working for deflationary money has a different price structure.
