First thing you said Shelby was "getting paid"
That is the issue.. morality & altruism etc.

If we are going to play by this everyone needs to be paid to lift a finger game then it's just going to scale up and escalate higher and higher.

Crypto in general started out as a few guys in a basement and now it's million dollar loans for mining farms
..and multi-million dollar ICO's where the "Dev" (i use that term loosely) is paid millions.
But.. it started out with guys doing coding work for nothing in return.
Aside from having the same equal mining opportunity on launch as all the others.

If they "need" to be paid it's going to snow ball.. it always does.
I don't know who to trust for governance off hand but i would trust the guys with hands out the least LOL
I'd be looking more to people who do things with out asking for anything in return.
That may not be an answer but it should help narrow it down a bit i think.