But Tok, even you can agree that it isn't a good idea to hand people money from the blockchain and trust them to do what they say they will without any milestones or required reports
You really are starting to sound like my bank manager. I didn't get into cryptos for this

When I look down that list of proposals on Dashwhale, I know exactly what I'm interested in. I never had
any problem separating the wheat from the chaff.
On the other hand, if they were all full of project management structured B.S. and 7 levels of hierarchy, each one of which were professionally prepared I'd probably have to sell all my Dash just for the pleasure of not having to read them.
"Gaming the system" is far easier when the system is structured than when it isn't.
Nobody said anything about 15 page daily reports or 7 levels of hierarchy or whatever-- that's hyperbole.
All Evan wants to do is track what is going on in the system and make sure things are happening as planed. The problem with zero management is that the economic incentives are misaligned for the budget system. You are incentivized to convince masternode voters to vote for you, but you have zero incentive to do what you proposed since you already have the money. The current system is altruism based. The only reason the system is working now sans management is because DASH is still tiny and most proposals are handled by trusted community members with significant stakes in DASH.
There doesn't need to be overbearing management, but there needs to be more than ZERO management once DASH grows enough for scammers to care.