I agree with this because there aren't already a bunch of other GUIs like there are for Bitcoin.

We tried that approach early on with the GUI bounty which successfully produced four different products, all of which got a piece of the bounty. Most were not maintained. One became MoneroX which was maintained for a while but that too was abandoned. The coin is just too small to reliably support those sorts of products and independent efforts (not meant as any disrespect for jwinterm and his lightWallet GUI which is still maintained and used). While it isn't the idea long-term strategy, for now we need to focus efforts on getting one well-maintained GUI.